Method for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system, and device for same

ABSTRACT

The present invention relates to a method whereby user equipment (UE) transmits channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system and to a device therefor. According to the present invention, a terminal receives configuration information for CSI reporting from a base station and receives a reference signal from the base station on the basis of the configuration information. The terminal may receive downlink control information (DCI) via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), calculate CSI about a particular channel on the basis of the configuration information and the DCI, and report same to the base station.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is the National Stage filing under 35 U.S.C. 371 ofInternational Application No. PCT/KR2019/014777, filed on Nov. 4, 2019,which claims the benefit of earlier filing date and right of priority toKorean Application No. 10-2018-0133977, filed on Nov. 2, 2018, and alsoclaims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/791,557, filedon Jan. 11, 2019, and 62/806,674, filed on Feb. 15, 2019, the contentsof which are all incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, andmore particularly, to a method for transmitting and receiving channelstate information in a wireless communication system and an apparatustherefor.

BACKGROUND ART

Mobile communication systems have been developed to provide voiceservices, while ensuring activity of users. However, coverage of themobile communication systems has been extended up to data services, aswell as voice service, and currently, an explosive increase in traffichas caused shortage of resources, and since users expect relatively highspeed services, an advanced mobile communication system is required.

Requirements for a next-generation mobile communication system includethe accommodation of explosive data traffic, a significant increase inthe transfer rate per user, the accommodation of the considerablyincreased number of connection devices, very low end-to-end latency, andhigh energy efficiency. To this end, there have been researched varioustechnologies, such as dual connectivity, massive multiple input multipleoutput (MIMO), in-band full duplex, non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA), super wideband, device networking, and the like.

DISCLOSURE Technical Problem

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method and apparatusfor transmitting and receiving channel state information (CSI) in awireless communication system.

Furthermore, the present disclosure provides a method of omitting orcompressing channel state information (CSI) when the size of CSIcalculated or obtained based a set parameter is greater than anallocated resource in the transmission of the CSI by a UE.

Furthermore, the present disclosure provides a method of omitting someor all of a plurality of parameters configuring CSI when a resourceallocated for CSI transmission is smaller than the size of calculatedCSI.

The technical purposes to be achieved in the present disclosure are notlimited to the technical purposes as mentioned above. Other technicalpurposes as not mentioned will be clearly understood by those ofordinary skill in the technical field to which the present disclosurebelongs from the following description.

Technical Solution

In order to solve the above technical problem, a method for transmittingchannel state information (CSI) by a user equipment (UE) in a wirelesscommunication system, according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure, comprising, receiving configuration information for CSIreporting from a base station, wherein the configuration informationincludes a plurality of codebook parameters for calculating the CSI;receiving, from the base station, a reference signal based on theconfiguration information; calculating CSI for a specific channel basedon the configuration information and the DCI, wherein CSI is calculatedbased on a compression method in a time domain or a frequency domain bythe plurality of codebook parameters; and reporting the calculated CSIto the base station, wherein the CSI consists of a first part and asecond part, wherein when a capacity of a resource allocated fortransmitting the CSI is smaller than a size of a payload of the CSIcalculated based on the plurality of parameters, the size of the payloadof the second part is reduced by applying at least one parameter untilthe size of the payload of the CSI becomes smaller than the capacity ofthe resource.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein the size of the payloadof the second part is reduced by decreasing a value of the at least oneparameter.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein a specific parameteramong the at least one parameter decreases as a specific value used forcalculating the specific parameter decreases, wherein the size of thepayload of the second part is decreased according to a specific rule asthe value of the specific parameter is decreased.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, herein the at least oneparameter is sequentially decreased or decreased according to a specificrule.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein the configurationinformation includes a set consisting of decreasing values of the atleast one parameter.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein the first part includesa rank indicator (RI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), and anindicator indicating a number of non-zero amplitude coefficients, andwherein the second part includes a precoding matrix indicator (PMI).

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein the at least oneparameter includes at least one of a value for determining a dimensionof a compressed coefficient matrix, a number of combining coefficientsfor calculating the PMI, a size of a fast Fourier transform (FFT),oversampling information, or a number of selected beams among aplurality of beams for calculating the PMI.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein a value of the at leastone parameter for reducing the size of the payload of the second part isdetermined by the UE.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein the configurationinformation includes the at least one parameter.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein the PMI is generatedbased on values for determining a dimension of a basis matrix and acompressed coefficient matrix.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein a specific matrixconsisting of a specific number of rows among a plurality of columnsconstituting the basic matrix is generated based on an over-sampling orunder-sampling method.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein the configurationinformation includes restriction information for restricting a number ofbeams combined to calculate the PMI included in the second part.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein a parameter related to abeam or an RI corresponding to a specific bit of the restrictioninformation is not included in the CSI.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, wherein the CSI is compressed onthe time domain or the frequency domain.

Furthermore, in the present disclosure, A user equipment (UE) fortransmitting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communicationsystem, the UE, comprising, A radio frequency (RF) module fortransmitting and receiving radio signals; and a processor forcontrolling the RF module, wherein the processor configured to: receiveconfiguration information for CSI reporting from a base station, whereinthe configuration information includes a plurality of codebookparameters for calculating the CSI; receive, from the base station, areference signal based on the configuration information; calculate CSIfor a specific channel based on the configuration information and theDCI, wherein CSI is calculated based on a compression method in a timedomain or a frequency domain by the plurality of codebook parameters;and report the calculated CSI to the base station, wherein the CSIconsists of a first part and a second part, wherein when a capacity of aresource allocated for transmitting the CSI is smaller than a size of apayload of the CSI calculated based on the plurality of parameters, thesize of the payload of the second part is reduced by applying at leastone parameter until the size of the payload of the CSI becomes smallerthan the capacity of the resource.

Advantageous Effects

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there are effectsin that a payload of CSI can be reduced and the degradation ofperformance can be minimized by omitting or compressing some or all ofthe CSI according to a specific rule when the size of calculated CSI isgreater than an allocated resource in reporting the CSI.

Furthermore, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, thereis an effect in that CSI can be reported although the capacity of anallocated resource is not sufficient for reporting the CSI by omittingsome or all of parameters configuring the CSI based on priority.

Furthermore, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is aneffect in that CSI can be reported when the capacity of an allocatedresource is smaller than the size of a payload of the CSI by compressingthe CSI in a time domain or a frequency domain.

Effects which may be obtained from the present disclosure are notlimited to the effects mentioned above. Other effects not mentioned maybe clearly understood by a person having ordinary knowledge in thetechnical field to which the present disclosure belongs from thefollowing description.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are included as part of the detaileddescription to help understand the present disclosure, provideembodiments of the present disclosure, and describe technical featuresof the present disclosure together with the detailed description

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of an overall systemstructure of NR to which a method proposed in the present disclosure isapplicable.

FIG. 2 illustrates a relationship between an uplink frame and a downlinkframe in a wireless communication system to which a method proposed inthe present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a resource grid supported in a wirelesscommunication system to which a method proposed in the presentdisclosure is applicable.

FIG. 4 illustrates examples of a resource grid for each antenna port andnumerology to which a method proposed in the present disclosure isapplicable.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a self-contained slotstructure to which a method proposed in the present disclosure isapplicable.

FIG. 6 illustrates a transceiver unit model in the wirelesscommunication system to which the method proposed in the presentdisclosure is applicable.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a hybrid beamforming structure in termsof TXRU and a physical antenna in the wireless communication system towhich the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a beam sweeping operationto which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of an antenna array to whichthe method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a beam used for beammanagement.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of a downlink beam managementprocedure.

FIG. 12 illustrates an example of a downlink beam management procedureusing a channel status information reference signal.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing an example of a receive beamdetermination process of a UE.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing an example of a transmit beamdetermination process of a BS.

FIG. 15 illustrates an example of resource allocation in time andfrequency domains related to a DL BM procedure using a CSI-RS.

FIG. 16 illustrates an example of an uplink beam management procedureusing a sounding reference signal (SRS).

FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing an example of an uplink beam managementprocedure using the SRS.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing an example of a method of performing anIdle mode DRX operation.

FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating an example of an Idle mode DRXoperation.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart showing an example of a method of performing aC-DRX operation.

FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating an example of a C-DRX operation.

FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating an example of power consumptiondepending on a state of a UE.

FIG. 23 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a CSI relatedprocedure to which the method proposed in the present specification maybe applied.

FIG. 24 illustrates an example of an information payload of PUSCH basedCSI reporting.

FIG. 25 illustrates an example of an information payload of short PUCCHbased CSI reporting.

FIG. 26 illustrates an example of an information payload of long PUCCHbased CSI reporting.

FIG. 27 illustrates an example of an orthogonal beam set to which amethod proposed in the present disclosure may be applied.

FIG. 28 illustrates an example of a multi-path which may occur when datais transmitted to which a method proposed in the present disclosure maybe applied.

FIG. 29 illustrates an example of a signal in a time domain to which amethod proposed in the present disclosure may be applied.

FIG. 30 is a diagram illustrating an example of the locations ofnon-zero coefficients, which is proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 31 is a diagram illustrating an example of CSI consisting of twoparts, which is proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 32 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method of receiving,by a base station, CSI, which is proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 33 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method oftransmitting, by a UE, CSI, which is proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 34 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a procedure forreporting CSI, which is proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 35 is a diagram illustrating an example of a communication systemapplied to the present disclosure.

FIG. 36 illustrates one example of a wireless device applicable to thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 37 illustrates another example of the wireless device applicable tothe present disclosure.

FIG. 38 is a diagram illustrating a hand-held device applicable to thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 39 is a diagram illustrating an AI device to which a methodproposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 40 is a diagram illustrating an AI server to which a methodproposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 41 illustrates an XR device applied to the present disclosure.

MODE FOR INVENTION

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments according to the present disclosurewill be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.The detailed description to be disclosed below with the accompanyingdrawings is intended to describe exemplary embodiments of the presentdisclosure, and is not intended to represent only embodiments in whichthe present disclosure may be practiced. The detailed description belowincludes specific details to provide a thorough understanding of thepresent disclosure. However, those skilled in the art appreciate thatthe present disclosure may be practiced without these specific details.

In some cases, in order to avoid obscuring the concept of the presentdisclosure, well-known structures and devices may be omitted, or may beillustrated in a block diagram form centering on core capabilities ofeach structure and device.

In the disclosure, a base station means a terminal node of a networkdirectly performing communication with a terminal. In the presentdocument, specific operations described to be performed by the basestation may be performed by an upper node of the base station in somecases. That is, it is apparent that in the network constituted bymultiple network nodes including the base station, various operationsperformed for communication with the terminal may be performed by thebase station or other network nodes other than the base station. A basestation (BS) may be generally substituted with terms such as a fixedstation, Node B, evolved-NodeB (eNB), a base transceiver system (BTS),an access point (AP), and the like. Further, a ‘terminal’ may be fixedor movable and be substituted with terms such as user equipment (UE), amobile station (MS), a user terminal (UT), a mobile subscriber station(MSS), a subscriber station (SS), an advanced mobile station (AMS), awireless terminal (WT), a Machine-Type Communication (MTC) device, aMachine-to-Machine (M2M) device, a Device-to-Device (D2D) device, andthe like.

Hereinafter, a downlink means communication from the base station to theterminal and an uplink means communication from the terminal to the basestation. In the downlink, a transmitter may be a part of the basestation and a receiver may be a part of the terminal. In the uplink, thetransmitter may be a part of the terminal and the receiver may be a partof the base station.

Specific terms used in the following description are provided to helpappreciating the disclosure and the use of the specific terms may bemodified into other forms within the scope without departing from thetechnical spirit of the disclosure.

The following technology may be used in various wireless access systems,such as code division multiple access (CDMA), frequency divisionmultiple access (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), orthogonalfrequency division multiple access (OFDMA), single carrier-FDMA(SC-FDMA), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and the like. The CDMAmay be implemented by radio technology universal terrestrial radioaccess (UTRA) or CDMA2000. The TDMA may be implemented by radiotechnology such as Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)/GeneralPacket Radio Service(GPRS)/Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE).The OFDMA may be implemented as radio technology such as IEEE802.11(Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16(WiMAX), IEEE 802-20, E-UTRA(Evolved UTRA),and the like. The UTRA is a part of a universal mobile telecommunicationsystem (UMTS). 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) long termevolution (LTE) as a part of an evolved UMTS (E-UMTS) using evolved-UMTSterrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) adopts the OFDMA in a downlink and theSC-FDMA in an uplink. LTE-advanced (A) is an evolution of the 3GPP LTE.

5G new radio (5G NR) defines enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massivemachine type communications (mMTC), Ultra-Reliable and Low LatencyCommunications (URLLC), vehicle-to-everything (V2X) according to a usagescenario.

In addition, the 5G NR standard is classified into standalone (SA) andnon-standalone (NSA) according to co-existence between the NR system andthe LTE system.

In addition, the 5G NR supports various subcarrier spacings, andsupports CP-OFDM in downlink and CP-OFDM and DFT-s-OFDM (SC-OFDM) inuplink.

The embodiments of the disclosure may be based on standard documentsdisclosed in at least one of IEEE 802, 3GPP, and 3GPP2 which are thewireless access systems. That is, steps or parts which are not describedto definitely show the technical spirit of the disclosure among theembodiments of the disclosure may be based on the documents. Further,all terms disclosed in the document may be described by the standarddocument.

3GPP LTE/LTE-A/NR is primarily described for clear description, buttechnical features of the disclosure are not limited thereto.

In addition, in the present disclosure, “A and/or B” may be interpretedas the same meaning as “including at least one of A or B”.

Definition of Terms

eLTE eNB: An eLTE eNB is an evolution of an eNB that supportsconnectivity to EPC and NGC.

gNB: A node which supports the NR as well as connectivity to NGC.

New RAN: A radio access network which supports either NR or E-UTRA orinterfaces with the NGC.

Network slice: A network slice is a network defined by the operatorcustomized to provide an optimized solution for a specific marketscenario which demands specific requirements with end-to-end scope.

Network function: A network function is a logical node within a networkinfrastructure that has well-defined external interfaces andwell-defined functional behavior.

NG-C: A control plane interface used on NG2 reference points between newRAN and NGC.

NG-U: A user plane interface used on NG3 reference points between newRAN and NGC.

Non-standalone NR: A deployment configuration where the gNB requires anLTE eNB as an anchor for control plane connectivity to EPC, or requiresan eLTE eNB as an anchor for control plane connectivity to NGC.

Non-standalone E-UTRA: A deployment configuration where the eLTE eNBrequires a gNB as an anchor for control plane connectivity to NGC.

User plane gateway: A termination point of NG-U interface.

Numerology: It corresponds to one subcarrier spacing in the frequencydomain. By scaling the reference subcarrier spacing to an integer N,different numerology can be defined.

NR: NR Radio Access or New Radio

System General

FIG. 1 illustrates an example of an overall structure of a new radio(NR) system to which a method proposed by the present disclosure isapplicable.

Referring to FIG. 1, an NG-RAN consists of gNBs that provide an NG-RAuser plane (new AS sublayer/PDCP/RLC/MAC/PHY) and control plane (RRC)protocol terminations for a user equipment (UE).

The gNBs are interconnected with each other by means of an Xn interface.

The gNBs are also connected to an NGC by means of an NG interface.

More specifically, the gNBs are connected to an access and mobilitymanagement function (AMF) by means of an N2 interface and to a userplane function (UPF) by means of an N3 interface.

New Rat (NR) Numerology and Frame Structure

In the NR system, multiple numerologies may be supported. Thenumerologies may be defined by subcarrier spacing and a cyclic prefix(CP) overhead. Spacing between the plurality of subcarriers may bederived by scaling basic subcarrier spacing into an integer N (or μ). Inaddition, although a very low subcarrier spacing is assumed not to beused at a very high subcarrier frequency, a numerology to be used may beselected independent of a frequency band.

In addition, in the NR system, a variety of frame structures accordingto the multiple numerologies may be supported.

Hereinafter, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)numerology and a frame structure, which may be considered in the NRsystem, will be described.

A plurality of OFDM numerologies supported in the NR system may bedefined as in Table 1.

TABLE 1 μ Δf = 2^(μ) · 15 [kHz] Cyclic prefix 0 15 Normal 1 30 Normal 260 Normal, Extended 3 120 Normal 4 240 Normal 5 480 Normal

NR supports multiple numerology (or subcarrier spacing (SCS)) to supportvarious 5G services. For example, when the SCS is 15 kHz, When the SCSis 30 kHz/60 kHz, dense-urban, lower latency and wider carrier bandwidthare supported, it supports is dense-urban, lower latency, and when theSCS is 60 kHz or higher, a bandwidth greater than 24.25 GHz is supportedto overcome phase noise.

The NR frequency band is defined as a frequency range of two types (FR1,FR2). FR1 and FR2 may be configured as shown in Table 2 below. Further,FR2 may mean a millimeter wave (mmW).

TABLE 2 Frequency Range Corresponding designation frequency rangeSubcarrier Spacing FR1  410 MHz-7125 MHz 15, 30, 60 kHz FR2 24250MHz-52600 MHz 60, 120, 240 kHz

Regarding a frame structure in the NR system, a size of various fieldsin the time domain is expressed as a multiple of a time unit ofT_(s)=1/(Δf_(max)·N_(f)), where Δf_(max)=480·10³, and N_(f)=4096.Downlink and uplink transmissions are organized into radio frames with aduration of T_(f)=(Δf_(max)N_(f)/100)·T_(s)=10 ms. The radio frameconsists of ten subframes each having a section ofT_(sf)=(Δf_(max)N_(f)/1000)·T_(s)=1 ms. In this case, there may be a setof frames in the uplink and a set of frames in the downlink.

FIG. 2 illustrates a relation between a UL frame and a DL frame in awireless communication system to which a method proposed by thedisclosure is applicable.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, a UL frame number i for transmission from auser equipment (UE) shall start T_(TA)=N_(TA)T_(s) before the start of acorresponding downlink frame at the corresponding UE.

Regarding the numerology μ, slots are numbered in increasing order ofn_(s) ^(μ) ∈ {0, . . . , N_(subframe) ^(slots, μ)−1} within a subframe,and are numbered in increasing order of n_(s,f) ^(μ) ∈ {0, . . . ,N_(frame) ^(slots, μ)−1} within a radio frame. One slot consists ofconsecutive OFDM symbols of N_(symb) ^(μ), and N_(symb) ^(μ) isdetermined depending on a numerology in use and slot configuration. Thestart of slots n_(s) ^(μ) in a subframe is aligned in time with thestart of OFDM symbols n_(s) ^(μ)N_(symb) ^(μ) in the same subframe.

Not all UEs are able to transmit and receive at the same time, and thismeans that not all OFDM symbols in a DL slot or an UL slot are availableto be used.

Table 3 represents the number of OFDM symbols N_(symb) ^(slot) per slotin a normal CP, the number of slot N_(slot) ^(frame,μ) per radio frameand the number of slot N_(slot) ^(subframe,μ) per subframe, and Table 4represents the number of OFDM symbols in an extended CP, the number ofslot per radio frame and the number of slot per subframe.

TABLE 3 Slot configuration 0 1 μ N_(symb) ^(μ) N_(frame) ^(slots, μ)N_(subframe) ^(slots, μ) N_(symb) ^(μ) N_(frame) ^(slots, μ)N_(subframe) ^(slots, μ) 0 14 10 1 7 20 2 1 14 20 2 7 40 4 2 14 40 4 780 8 3 14 80 8 — — — 4 14 160 16 — — — 5 14 320 32 — — —

TABLE 4 Slot configuration 0 1 μ N_(symb) ^(μ) N_(frame) ^(slots, μ)N_(subframe) ^(slots, μ) N_(symb) ^(μ) N_(frame) ^(slots, μ)N_(subframe) ^(slots, μ) 0 12 10 1 6 20 2 1 12 20 2 6 40 4 2 12 40 4 680 8 3 12 80 8 — — — 4 12 160 16 — — — 5 12 320 32 — — —

NR Physical Resource

Regarding physical resources in the NR system, an antenna port, aresource grid, a resource element, a resource block, a carrier part,etc. may be considered.

Hereinafter, the above physical resources possible to be considered inthe NR system will be described in more detail.

First, regarding an antenna port, the antenna port is defined such thata channel over which a symbol on one antenna port is transmitted can beinferred from another channel over which a symbol on the same antennaport is transmitted. When large-scale properties of a channel receivedover which a symbol on one antenna port can be inferred from anotherchannel over which a symbol on another antenna port is transmitted, thetwo antenna ports may be in a QC/QCL (quasi co-located or quasico-location) relationship. Herein, the large-scale properties mayinclude at least one of delay spread, Doppler spread, Doppler shift,average gain, and average delay.

FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a resource grid supported in a wirelesscommunication system to which a method proposed by the disclosure may beapplied.

Referring to FIG. 3, a resource grid is composed of N_(RB) ^(μ)N_(sc)^(RB) subcarriers in a frequency domain, each subframe composed of14.·2μ OFDM symbols, but the disclosure is not limited thereto.

In the NR system, a transmitted signal is described by one or moreresource grids, composed of N_(RB) ^(μ)N_(sc) ^(RB) subcarriers, and2^(μ)N_(symb) ^((μ)) OFDM symbols. Herein, N_(RB) ^(μ)≤N_(RB) ^(max,μ).The above N_(RB) ^(max,μ) indicates the maximum transmission bandwidth,and it may change not just between numerologies, but between UL and DL.

In this case, shown as FIG. 4, one resource grid may be configured forthe numerology μ and an antenna port p.

FIG. 4 shows examples of an antenna port and a resource grid for eachneurology to which the method proposed in the present disclosure may beapplied.

Each element of the resource grid for the numerology μ and the antennaport p is indicated as a resource element, and may be uniquelyidentified by an index pair (k, l). Herein, k=0, . . . , N_(RB)^(μ)N_(sc) ^(RB)−1 is an index in the frequency domain, and l=0, . . . ,2^(μ)N_(symb) ^((μ))−1 indicates a location of a symbol in a subframe.To indicate a resource element in a slot, the index pair (k, l) is used.Herein, l=0, . . . , N_(symb) ^(μ)−1.

The resource element (k, l) for the numerology μ and the antenna port pcorresponds to a complex value a_(k, l) ^((p)). When there is no risk ofconfusion or when a specific antenna port or numerology is specified,the indexes p and μ may be dropped and thereby the complex value maybecome a_(k, l) ^((p)) or a_(k, l) .

In addition, a physical resource block is defined as N_(sc) ^(RB)=12continuous subcarriers in the frequency domain. In the frequency domain,physical resource blocks may be numbered from 0 to N_(RB) ^(μ)−1. Atthis point, a relationship between the physical resource block numbern_(PRB) and the resource elements (k,l) may be given as in Equation 1.

$\begin{matrix}{n_{PRB} = \left\lfloor \frac{k}{N_{sc}^{RB}} \right\rfloor} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 1} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In addition, regarding a carrier part, a UE may be configured to receiveor transmit the carrier part using only a subset of a resource grid. Atthis point, a set of resource blocks which the UE is configured toreceive or transmit are numbered from 0 to N_(URB) ^(μ)−1 in thefrequency region.

Self-Contained Slot Structure

In order to minimize the latency of data transmission in the TDD system,the 5th generation New RAT (NR) considers the self-contained slotstructure as shown in FIG. 8.

That is, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a self-contained slotstructure to which the method proposed according to the presentdisclosure may be applied.

In FIG. 5, a shaded region 510 represents a downlink control region, anda black region 520 represents an uplink control region.

A blank region 530 may be used for downlink data transmission, or may beused for uplink data transmission.

The feature of this structure is that DL transmission and ULtransmission are sequentially performed within one slot, and DL data istransmitted and UL Ack/Nack is transmitted and received within one slot.

Such a slot may be defined as a ‘self-contained slot’.

That is, using this slot structure, the base station may reduce a timeconsumed to retransmit data to the user equipment when a datatransmission error occurs, and thus may minimize the latency of thefinal data transfer.

This self-contained slot structure requires a time gap for which thebase station and the user equipment switch from a transmission mode to areception mode or switch from a reception mode to a transmission mode.

To this end, in the corresponding slot structure, some OFDM symbols atthe time of switching from DL to UL are set as a guard period (GP).

Analog Beamforming

Since a wavelength is short in a Millimeter Wave (mmW) range, aplurality of antennas may be installed in the same size of area. Thatis, a wavelength in the frequency band 30 GHz is 1 cm, and thus, 64antenna elements may be installed in two-dimensional arrangement with a0.5 lambda (that is, a wavelength) in 4×4 (4 by 4) cm panel. Therefore,in the mmW range, the coverage may be enhanced or a throughput may beincreased by increasing a beamforming (BF) gain with a plurality ofantenna elements.

In this case, in order to enable adjusting transmission power and phasefor each antenna element, if a transceiver unit (TXRU) is included,independent beamforming for each frequency resource is possible.However, it is not cost-efficient to install TXRU at each of about 100antenna elements. Thus, a method is considered in which a plurality ofantenna elements is mapped to one TXRU and a direction of beam isadjusted with an analog phase shifter. Such an analog BF method is ableto make only one beam direction over the entire frequency band, andthere is a disadvantage that frequency-selective BF is not allowed.

A hybrid BF may be considered which is an intermediate between digitalBF and analog BF, and which has B number of TXRU less than Q number ofantenna elements. In this case, although varying depending upon a methodof connecting B number of TXRU and Q number of antenna elements, beamdirections capable of being transmitted at the same time is restrictedto be less than B.

Hereinafter, typical examples of a method of connecting TXRU and antennaelements will be described with reference to drawings.

FIG. 6 is an example of a transceiver unit model in a wirelesscommunication system to which the present disclosure may be implemented.

A TXRU virtualization model represents a relationship between outputsignals from TXRUs and output signals from antenna elements. Dependingon a relationship between antenna elements and TXRUs, the TXRUvirtualization model may be classified as a TXRU virtualization modeloption-1: sub-array partition model, as shown in FIG. 6(a), or as a TXRUvirtualization model option-2: full-connection model as shown in FIG.6(b).

Referring to FIG. 6(a), in the sub-array partition model, the antennaelements are divided into multiple antenna element groups, and each TXRUmay be connected to one of the multiple antenna element groups. In thiscase, the antenna elements are connected to only one TXRU.

Referring to FIG. 6(b), in the full-connection model, signals frommultiple TXRUs are combined and transmitted to a single antenna element(or arrangement of antenna elements). That is, this shows a method inwhich a TXRU is connected to all antenna elements. In this case, theantenna elements are connected to all the TXRUs.

In FIG. 6, q represents a transmitted signal vector of antenna elementshaving M number of co-polarized in one column. W represents a widebandTXRU virtualization weight vector, and W represents a phase vector to bemultiplied by an analog phase shifter. That is, a direction of analogbeamforming is decided by W. x represents a signal vector of M TXRUnumber of TXRUs.

Herein, mapping of the antenna ports and TXRUs may be performed on thebasis of 1-to-1 or 1-to-many.

TXRU-to-element mapping In FIG. 6 is merely an example, and the presentdisclosure is not limited thereto and may be equivalently applied evento mapping of TXRUs and antenna elements which can be implemented in avariety of hardware forms.

In the next system (e.g., 5G), depending on the application field and/orthe type of traffic, the UE does not receive the UL grant beforeperforming the uplink transmission and performs uplink transmission in asemi-persistent resource and it is possible to perform a configuredgrant transmission. In addition, in the existing system, that is, LTE, asimilar operation is possible in DL and UL through semi-persistentscheduling (SPS). In the configured grant transmission, a radio resourcewhich different UEs share based on a contention or a radio resourcededicatedly allocated to the UE may be used. For the configured granttransmission, since a UL grant receiving operation is not required priorto the transmission, the radio resources may be utilized in a service ortraffic of a field requiring a lower latency time. It is considered thatthe radio resource used for the configured grant transmission uses adifferent modulation and coding scheme or a different transmission blocksize or a different transmission time interval (TT) from a radioresource allocated through the UL grant. The UE may be allocated withone or multiple radio resources for the configured grant transmission.Multiple radio resources used for the configured grant transmission maybe have the same or different size or modulation encoding scheme, timeand/or frequency scheduling units and overlapping may be allowed. Amethod in which the UE attempts to transmit the same data several timesin order to increase a success rate of the configured grant transmissionis also considered. In the next system, a separated RRC configurationmay be performed for configured grant transmission.

Further, in a New RAT system, when multiple antennas are used, a hybridbeam forming technique combining digital beam forming and analog beamforming is emerging. In this case, the analog beamforming (or radiofrequency (RF) beamforming) means an operation of performing precoding(or combining) in an RF stage. In the hybrid beamforming, each of abaseband stage and the RF stage perform precoding (or combining),thereby reducing the number of RF chains and the number of digital(D)/analog (A) converters and achieving performance close to the digitalbeamforming. For convenience, the hybrid beamforming structure may berepresented by N transceiver units (TXRU) and M physical antennas. Then,the digital beamforming for L data layers to be transmitted by thetransmitter may be represented by an N by L matrix, and then the Ndigital signals converted are converted into an analog signal via theTXRU and then applied the analog beamforming represented by an M by Nmatrix.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a hybrid beamforming structure in termsof TXRU and a physical antenna in the wireless communication system towhich the method proposed in the present disclosure may be applied.

In FIG. 7, a case where the number of digital beams is L and the numberof analog beams is N is illustrated.

In the New RAT system, considered is a direction in which it is designedso that the BS may change the analog beamforming by the unit of thesymbol to support more efficient beamforming to a UE positioned in aspecific region. Furthermore, in FIG. 7, when N specific TXRUs and Mspecific RF antennas are defined as one antenna panel, a scheme thatintroduces a plurality of antenna panels capable of independent hybridbeamforming is also considered in the New RAT system.

Feedback of Channel State Information (CSI)

In a 3GPP LTE/LTE-A system, user equipment (UE) is defined to reportchannel state information (CSI) to a base station (BS or eNB).

The CSI collectively refers to information that can indicate the qualityof a radio channel (or referred to as a link) formed between the UE andthe antenna port. For example, a rank indicator (RI), a precoding matrixindicator (PMI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), and the likecorrespond to the information.

Here, the RI represents rank information of a channel, which means thenumber of streams received by the UE through the same time-frequencyresource. Since this value is determined depending on the long termfading of the channel, the value is fed back from the UE to the BS witha period usually longer than the PMI and the CQI. The PMI is a valuereflecting a channel space characteristic and represents a preferredprecoding index preferred by the UE based on a metric such assignal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). The CQI is a valuerepresenting the strength of the channel, and generally refers to areception SINR that can be obtained when the BS uses the PMI.

In the 3GPP LTE/LTE-A system, the BS configures a plurality of CSIprocesses to the UE and may receive CSI for each process. Here, the CSIprocess is constituted by a CSI-RS for signal quality measurement fromthe BS and a CSI-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource forinterference measurement.

Virtualization of Reference Signal (RS)

In the mmW, it is possible to transmit a PDSCH only in one analog beamdirection at a time by analog beamforming. In this case, datatransmission from the BS is possible only to a small number of UEs inthe corresponding direction. Therefore, if necessary, the analog beamdirection is differently configured for each antenna port so that datatransmission can be simultaneously performed to a plurality of UEs inseveral analog beam directions.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a beam sweeping operationto which the method proposed in the present disclosure may be applied.

As described in FIG. 7, when the BS uses a plurality of analog beams, abeam sweeping operation is considered, which allows all UEs to have areception opportunity by changing a plurality of analog beams to whichthe BS intends to apply in a specific subframe according to the symbolat least with respect to a synchronization signal, system information,and a paging signal because an analog beam which is advantageous forsignal reception for each UE.

FIG. 8 illustrates an example of a beam sweeping operation for asynchronization signal and system information in a downlink transmissionprocess. In FIG. 8, a physical resource (or physical channel) throughwhich the system information is transmitted in a broadcasting scheme inthe New RAT is referred to as physical broadcast channel (xPBCH).

In this case, analog beams belonging to different antenna panels withinone symbol may be simultaneously transmitted and discussed is a schemethat introduces a beam reference signal (BRS) which is a referencesignal transmitted, to which a single analog beam (corresponding to aspecific antenna panel) is applied as illustrated in FIG. 7 to measurechannels depending on the analog beam.

The BRS may be defined for a plurality of antenna ports and each antennaport of the BRS may correspond to the single analog beam.

In this case, unlike the BRS, the synchronization signal or xPBCH may betransmitted, to which all of the analog beams in the analog beam groupare applied so that the signal may be well received by random UEs.

RRM Measurement

The LTE system supports RRM operations including power control,scheduling, cell search, cell reselection, handover, radio link orconnection monitoring, connection establishment/re-establishment, andthe like.

In this case, the serving cell may request RRM measurement information,which is a measurement value for performing the RRM operations, to theUE.

For example, the UE may measure information including cell searchinformation for each cell, reference signal received power (RSRP),reference signal received quality (RSRQ), and the like and report themeasured information to the BS.

Specifically, in the LTE system, the UE receives ‘measConfig’ as ahigher layer signal for RRM measurement from the serving cell. The UEmeasures the RSRP or RSRQ according to ‘measConfig’.

The RSRP, the RSRQ, and the RSSI are defined as below.

RSRP: The RSRP may be defined as a linear average of a powercontribution [W] of a resource element carrying a cell specificreference signal within a considered measurement frequency bandwidth. Acell specific reference signal RO may be used for deciding the RSRP.When the UE may reliably detect that R1 is available, the UE may decidethe RSRP by using R1 in addition to RO.

A reference point of the RSRP may be an antenna connector of the UE.

When receiver diversity is used by the UE, a reported value need not besmaller than the RSRP corresponding to a random individual diversitybranch.

RSRQ: The reference signal received quality (RSRQ) is defined as a ratioN×RSRP/(E-UTRA carrier RSSI) and N represents the number of RBs of anE-UTRA carrier RSSI measurement bandwidth. Measurements of numerator anddenominator should be performed through the same set of resource blocks.

The E-UTRA carrier received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is receivedthrough a block by the UE from all sources including N resource adjacentchannel interference, thermal noise, etc., in a linear average of thetotal received power [W] measured only in an OFDM symbol containing areference symbol for antenna port 0 and a measurement bandwidth.

When the higher layer signaling represents a specific subframe forperforming the RSRQ measurement, the RS SI is measured for all OFDMsymbols in the indicated subframe.

The reference point for THE RSRQ should be the antenna connector of theUE.

When the receiver diversity is used by the UE, the reported value shouldnot be smaller than the corresponding RSRQ of the random individualdiversity branch.

RSSI: The RSSI means received broadband power including thermal noiseand noise generated at the receiver within a bandwidth defined by areceiver pulse shaping filter.

The reference point for measuring the RSSI should be the antennaconnector of the UE. When the receiver diversity is used by the UE, thereported value should not be smaller than the corresponding UTRA carrierRSSI of the random individual receive antenna branch.

According to such a definition, the UE which operates in the LTE systemmay be allowed to measure the RSRP in a bandwidth corresponding to oneof 6, 15, 25, 50, 75, and 100 resource blocks (RBs) through aninformation element (IE) related with an allowed measurement bandwidthtransmitted system information block type 3 (SIB3) in the case ofintra-frequency measurement and through an allowed measurement bandwidthtransmitted in SIBS in the case of inter-frequency measurement.

Alternatively, in the absence of such an IE, the measurement may beperformed in a frequency band of the entire downlink (DL) system bydefault. In this case, when the UE receives the allowed measurementbandwidth, the UE may consider the corresponding value as a maximummeasurement bandwidth and arbitrarily measure the value of the RSRPwithin the corresponding value.

However, when the serving cell transmits an IE defined as WB-RSRQ andthe allowed measurement bandwidth is set to 50 RB or more, the UE needsto calculate the RSRP value for the entire allowed measurementbandwidth. Meanwhile, the RSSI may be measured in the frequency band ofthe receiver of the UE according to the definition of the RSSIbandwidth.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of an antenna array to whichthe method proposed in the present disclosure may be applied.

Referring to FIG. 9, the normalized panel antenna array may beconstituted by Mg panels and Ng panels in a horizontal domain and avertical domain, respectively.

In this case, one panel is constituted by M columns and N rows,respectively, and an X-pol antenna is assumed in FIG. 9. Therefore, thetotal number of antenna elements may be 2*M*N*Mg*Ng.

Beam Management (BM)

A BM procedure as layer 1 (L1)/layer 2 (L2) procedures for acquiring andmaintaining a set of base station (e.g., gNB, TRP)and/or terminal (e.g.,UE) beams which may be used for downlink (DL) and uplink (UL)transmission/reception may include the following procedures and terms.

-   Beam measurement: Operation of measuring characteristics of a    received beamforming signal by the BS or UE.-   Beam determination: Operation of selecting a transmit (Tx)    beam/receive (Rx) beam of the BS or UE by the BS or UE.-   Beam sweeping: Operation of covering a spatial region using the    transmit and/or receive beam for a time interval by a predetermined    scheme.-   Beam report: Operation in which the UE reports information of a    beamformed signal based on beam measurement.

The BM procedure may be divided into (1) a DL BM procedure using asynchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) Block orCSI-RS and (2) a UL BM procedure using a sounding reference signal(SRS).

Further, each BM procedure may include Tx beam sweeping for determiningthe Tx beam and Rx beam sweeping for determining the Rx beam.

Downlink Beam Management (DL BM)

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a beam used for beammanagement.

The DL BM procedure may include (1) the transmission of beamformed DLreference signals (RSs) (e.g., CIS-RS or SS Block (SSB)) of the eNB and(2) the beam reporting of the UE.

Here, the beam reporting a preferred DL RS identifier (ID)(s) andL1-Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP).

The DL RS ID may be an SSB Resource Indicator (SSBRI) or a CSI-RSResource Indicator (CRI).

As illustrated in FIG. 10, an SSB beam and a CSI-RS beam may be used forthe beam management. A measurement metric is an L1-RSRP for eachresource/block. The SSB may be sued for coarse beam management and theCSI-RS may be sued for fine beam management. The SSB may be used forboth the Tx beam sweeping and the Rx beam sweeping.

The Rx beam sweeping using the SSB may be performed while the UE changesthe Rx beam for the same SSBRI across multiple SSB bursts. Here, one SSburst includes one or more SSBs and one SS burst set includes one ormore SSB bursts.

DL BM Using SSB

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of a downlink beam managementprocedure.

A configuration for beam report using the SSB is performed during aCSI/beam configuration in an RRC connected state (or RRC connectedmode).

The UE receives from the BS CSI-ResourceConfig IE includingCSI-SSB-ResourceSetList including SSB resources used for the BM (S1110).

Table 5 shows an example of CSI-ResourceConfig IE and as shown in TableA, a BM configuration using the SSB is not separately defined and theSSB is configured like the CSI-RS resource.

TABLE 5 -- ASN1START -- TAG-CSI-RESOURCECONFIG-START CSI-ResourceConfig::= SEQUENCE { csi-ResourceConfigId CSI-ResourceConfigId,csi-RS-ResourceSetList CHOICE { nzp-CSI-RS-SSB SEQUENCE {nzp-CSI-RS-ResourceSetList SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofNZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSetsPerConfig)) OFNZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSetId OPTIONAL, csi-SSB-ResourceSetList SEQUENCE(SIZE (1..maxNrofCSI- SSB-ResourceSetsPerConfig)) OFCSI-SSB-ResourceSetId OPTIONAL }, csi-IM-ResourceSetList SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofCSI-IM- ResourceSetsPerConfig)) OF CSI-IM-ResourceSetId },bwp-Id BWP-Id, resourceType ENUMERATED { aperiodic, semiPersistent,periodic }, ... } -- TAG-CSI-RESOURCECONFIGTOADDMOD-STOP -- ASN1STOP

In Table 5, csi-SSB-ResourceSetList parameter represents a list of SSBresources used for beam management and reporting in one resource set.Here, SSB resource set may be configured as {SSBx1, SSBx2, SSBx3, SSBx4,. . . }. The SSB index may be defined as 0 to 63.

-   The UE receives, from the BS, the SSB resource based on the    CSI-SSB-ResourceSetList (S1120).-   When CSI-RS reportConfig associated with reporting of SSBRI and    L1-RSRP is configured, the UE (beam) reports to the BS best SSBRI    and L1-RSRP corresponding thereto (S1130).

In other words, when reportQuantity of the CSI-RS reportConfig IE isconfigured as ‘ssb-Index-RSRP’, the UE reports to the BS best SSBRI andL1-RSRP corresponding thereto.

In addition, when the CSI-RS resource is configured in the same OFDMsymbol(s) as SSB (SS/PBCH Block) and ‘QCL-TypeD’ is applicable, the UEmay assume that the CSI-RS and the SSB are quasi co-located from theviewpoint of ‘QCL-TypeD’.

Here, the QCL TypeD may mean that antenna ports are QCL from theviewpoint of a spatial Rx parameter. When the UE receives a plurality ofDL antenna ports having a QCL Type D relationship, the same Rx beam maybe applied. Further, the UE does not expect that the CSI-RS isconfigured in an RE overlapped with the RE of the SSB.

DL BM Using CSI-RS

In respect to a CSI-RS usage, i) when a repetition parameter isconfigured in a specific CSI-RS resource set and TRS_info is notconfigured, the CSI-RS is used for the beam management. ii) When therepetition parameter is not configured and TRS_info is configured, theCSI-RS is used for a tracking reference signal (TRS). iii) When therepetition parameter is not configured and TRS_info is not configured,the CSI-RS is used for CSI acquisition.

The repetition parameter may be configured only for CSI-RS resource setsassociated with CSI-ReportConfig having a report of L1 RSRP or ‘NoReport (or None)’.

When the UE is configured with CSI-ReportConfig in which reportQuantityis configured as ‘cri-RSRP’ or ‘none’ and CSI-ResourceConfig (higherlayer parameter resourcesForChannelMeasurement) for channel measurementincludes not higher layer parameter ‘trs-Info’ butNZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet in which higher layer parameter ‘repetition’ isconfigured, the UE may be configured only with the same number of port(1-port or 2-port) having higher layer parameter ‘nrofPorts’ for allCSI-RS resources in NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet.

When (higher layer parameter) repetition is configured to ‘ON’, (higherlayer parameter) repetition is associated with the Rx beam sweepingprocedure of the UE. In this case, when the UE is configured withNZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet, the UE may assume that at least one CSI-RSresource in NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet is transmitted to the same downlinkspatial domain transmission filter. In other words, at least one CSI-RSresource in NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet is transmitted through the same Txbeam. Here, at least one CSI-RS resource in NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet maybe transmitted to different OFDM symbols. Further, the UE does notexpect that different periodicities are received at periodicityAndOffsetin all CSI-RS resources in NZP-CSI-RS-Resourceset.

On the contrary, when Repetition is configured to ‘OFF’, the Repetitionis associated with the Tx beam sweeping procedure of the BS. In thiscase, when repetition is configured to ‘OFF’, the UE does not assumethat at least one CSI-RS resource in NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet istransmitted to the same downlink spatial domain transmission filter. Inother words, at least one CSI-RS resource in NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet istransmitted through different Tx beams.

FIG. 12 illustrates an example of a downlink beam management procedureusing a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS).

FIG. 12(a) illustrates an Rx beam determination (or refinement)procedure of the UE and FIG. 12(b) illustrates a Tx beam sweepingprocedure of the BS. Further, FIG. 12(a) illustrates a case where therepetition parameter is configured to ‘ON’ and FIG. 12(b) illustrates acase where the repetition parameter is configured to ‘OFF’.

Referring to FIGS. 12(a) and 13, an Rx beam determination process of theUE will be described.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing an example of a receive beamdetermination process of a UE.

-   The UE receives, from the BS, NZP CSI-RS resource set IE including    higher layer parameter repetition through RRC signaling (S1310).    Here, the repetition parameter is configured to ‘ON’.-   The UE repeatedly receives a resource(s) in CSI-RS resource set    configured as repetition ‘ON’ in different OFDM symbols through the    same Tx beam (or DL spatial domain transmission filter) of the BS    (S1320).-   The UE determines the Rx beam thereof (S1330).-   The UE skips CSI report (S1340). In this case, reportQuantity of CSI    report config may be configured as ‘No report (or None)’.

In other words, the UE may skip the CSI report when repetition ‘ON’ isconfigured.

Referring to FIGS. 12(b) and 14, a Tx beam determination process of theBS will be described.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing an example of a transmit beamdetermination process of a BS.

-   The UE receives, from the BS, NZP CSI-RS resource set IE including    higher layer parameter repetition through RRC signaling (S1410).    Here, the repetition parameter is configured to ‘OFF’ and associated    with the Tx beam sweeping procedure of the BS.-   The UE receives a resource(s) in CSI-RS resource set configured as    repetition ‘OFF’ through different Tx beams (DL spatial domain    transmission filters) of the eNB (S1420).-   The UE selects (or determines) a best beam (S1430).-   The UE reports to the BS an ID for the selected beam and related    quality information (e.g., L1-RSRP) (S1440). In this case,    reportQuantity of CSI report config may be configured as    ‘CRT+L1-RSRP’.

In other words, when the CSI-RS is transmitted for the BM, the UEreports to the BS the CRI and L 1 -RSRP therefor.

FIG. 15 illustrates an example of resource allocation in time andfrequency domains related to a DL BM procedure using a CSI-RS.

Specifically, it can be seen that when repetition ‘ON’ is configured inthe CSI-RS resource set, a plurality of CSI-RS resources is repeatedlyused by applying the same Tx beam and when repetition ‘OFF’ isconfigured in the CSI-RS resource set, different CSI-RS resources aretransmitted by different Tx beams.

DL BM Related Beam Indication

The UE may be RRC-configured with a list for a maximum of M candidateTransmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states at least for apurpose of Quasi Co-location (QCL) indication. Here, the M may be 64.

Each TCI state may be configured as one RS set. One of DL RS typesincluding SSB, P-CSI RS, SP-CSI RS, A-CSI RS, and the like may be atleast referred to for an ID of each DL RS for a purpose of spatial QCL(QCL Type D) in the RS set.

Initialization/update of the ID of the DL RS(s) in the RS set used forthe purpose of the spatial QCL may be at least performed throughexplicit signaling.

Table 6 shows an example of TCI-State IE.

The TCI-State IE is associated with a quasi co-location (QCL) typecorresponding to one or two DL reference signals (RSs).

TABLE 6 -- ASN1START -- TAG-TCI-STATE-START TCI-State ::= SEQUENCE {tci-StateId TCI-StateId, qcl-Type1 QCL-Info, qcl-Type2 QCL-Info ... }QCL-Info ::= SEQUENCE { cell ServCellIndex bwp-Id BWP-Id referenceSignalCHOICE { csi-rs NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId, ssb SSB-Index }, qcl-TypeENUMERATED {typeA, typeB, typeC, typeD}, ... } -- TAG-TCI-STATE-STOP --ASN1STOP

In Table 6, bwp-Id parameter represents DL BWP in which the RS islocated, cell parameter represents a carrier in which the RS is located,and reference signal parameter represents a reference antenna port(s)which becomes a source of quasi co-location for the corresponding targetantenna port(s) or a reference signaling including the same. The targetantenna port(s) may be CSI-RS, PDCCH DMRS, or PDSCH DMRS. As an example,corresponding TCI state ID may be indicated for NZP CSI-RS resourceconfiguration information in order to indicate QCL reference RSinformation for NZP CSI-RS. As another example, the TCI state ID may beindicated for each CORESET configuration in order to indicate QCLreference information for a PDCCH DMRS antenna port(s). As yet anotherexample, the TCI state ID may be indicated through DCI in order toindicate QCL reference information for a PDSCH DMRS antenna port(s).

Quasi-Co Location (QCL)

The antenna port is defined so that a channel in which the symbol on theantenna port is transported may be inferred from a channel in whichdifferent symbols on the same antenna port are transported. When aproperty of a channel in which a symbol on one antenna port istransported may be interred from a channel in which symbols on differentantenna ports are transported, two antenna ports may have a quasico-located or quasi co-location (QC/QCL) relationship.

Here, the channel property includes at least one of a delay spread, aDoppler spread, a frequency/Doppler shift, average received power,received timing/average delay, and a spatial Rx parameter. Here, thespatial Rx parameter means a spatial (receive) channel propertyparameter such as angle of arrival.

The UE may be configured as a list of up to M TCI-State configurationsin higher layer parameter PDSCH-Config in order to decode the PDSCHaccording to detected PDCCH having an intended DCI for the correspondingUE and a given serving cell. The M depends on a UE capability.

Each TCI-State includes a parameter for configuring a quasi co-locationrelationship between one or two DL reference signals and a DM-RS port ofthe PDSCH.

The quasi co-location relationship is configured as higher layerparameter qcl-Type1 for a first DL RS and qcl-Type2 (when configured)for a second DL RS. Two DL RSs are not the same as each other in termsof QCL type regardless of whether two DL RS are DL RSs having the samereference or DL RSs having different references.

A quasi co-location type corresponding to each DL RS may be given byhigher layer parameter qcl-Type of QCL-Info and may take one of thefollowing values.

-   ‘QCL-TypeA’: {Doppler shift, Doppler spread, average delay, delay    spread}-   ‘QCL-TypeB’: {Doppler shift, Doppler spread}-   ‘QCL-TypeC’: {Doppler shift, average delay}-   ‘QCL-TypeD’: {Spatial Rx parameter}

For example, when a target antenna port is specific NZP CSI-RS,corresponding NZP CSI-RS antenna ports may be indicated/configured to beQCL with specific TRS from the viewpoint of QCL-Type A and specific SSBfrom the viewpoint of QCL-Type D. The UE that receives theindication/configuration may receive the corresponding NZP CSI-RS byusing a Doppler delay value measured in QCL-TypeA TRS and apply an Rxbeam used for receiving QCL-TypeD SSB to reception of the correspondingNZP CSI-RS.

The UE may receive an activation command by MAC CE signaling used formapping up to eight TCI states to code point of DCI field ‘TransmissionConfiguration Indication’.

UL BM

In the case of UL BM, beam reciprocity (or beam correspondence) betweenthe Tx beam and the Rx beam may be established or not establishedaccording to UE implementation. If the reciprocity between the Tx beamand the Tx beam is established in both the BS and the UE, a UL beam pairmay be matched through a DL beam pair. However, when the reciprocitybetween the Tx beam and the Rx beam is not established even in any oneof the BS and the UE, a UL beam pair determination process is requiredapart from DL beam pair determination.

Further, even when the BS and the UE maintain beam correspondence, theBS may use a UL BM procedure in order to determine a DL Tx beam withoutrequesting report of a preferred beam by the UE.

The UL BM may be performed through beamformed UL SRS transmission andwhether to apply UL BM of the SRS resource set is configured by a(higher layer parameter) usage. When the usage is configured as‘BeamManagement (BM)’, only one SRS resource may be transmitted to eachof a plurality of SRS resource sets at a given time instant.

The UE may be configured with one or more Sounding Reference Symbol(SRS) resource sets configured by (higher layer parameter)SRS-ResourceSet (through higher layer signaling, RRC signaling, etc.).For each SRS resource set, the UE may be configured with K (≥1) SRSresources (higher later parameter SRS-resources). Here, K is a naturalnumber and a maximum value of K is indicated by SRS_capability.

Similarly to the DL BM, a UL BM procedure may also be divided into Txbeam sweeping of the UE and Rx beam sweeping of the BS.

FIG. 16 illustrates an example of an uplink beam management procedureusing a sounding reference signal (SRS). FIG. 16(a) illustrates an Rxbeam determination procedure of the BS and FIG. 16(b) illustrates a Txbeam sweeping procedure of the UE.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing an example of an uplink beam managementprocedure using the SRS.

The UE receives, from the BS, RRC signaling (e.g., SRS-Config IE)including a (higher layer parameter) usage parameter configured as ‘beammanagement’ (S1710).

Table 7 shows an example of SRS-Config Information Element (IE) andSRS-Config IE is used for an SRS transmission configuration. SRS-ConfigIE includes a list of SRS-Resources and a list of SRS-ResourceSets. EachSRS resource set means a set of SRS-resources.

The network may trigger transmission of the SRS resource set by usingconfigured aperiodicSRS -ResourceTrigger (L1 DCI).

TABLE 7 -- ASN1START --TAG-MAC-CELL-GROUP-CONFIG-START SRS-Config ::=SEQUENCE { srs-ResourceSetToReleaseList SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofSRS-ResourceSets)) OF SRS-ResourceSetId OPTIONAL,  -- Need Nsrs-ResourceSetToAddModList SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofSRS- ResourceSets))OF SRS-ResourceSet OPTIONAL,  -- Need N srs-ResourceToReleaseListSEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofSRS- Resources)) OF SRS-ResourceIdOPTIONAL,  -- Need N srs-ResourceToAddModList SEQUENCE(SIZE(1..maxNrofSRS- Resources)) OF SRS-Resource OPTIONAL,  -- Need Ntpc-Accumulation ENUMERATED {disabled} ... } SRS-ResourceSet ::=SEQUENCE { srs-ResourceSetId SRS-ResourceSetId, srs-ResourceIdListSEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofSRS- ResourcesPerSet)) OF SRS-ResourceIdOPTIONAL,  -- Cond Setup resourceType CHOICE { aperiodic SEQUENCE {aperiodicSRS-ResourceTrigger INTEGER (1..maxNrofSRS- TriggerStates−1),csi-RS NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId slotOffset INTEGER (1..32) ... },semi-persistent SEQUENCE { associatedCSI-RS NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId ... },periodic SEQUENCE { associatedCSI-RS NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId ... } },usage ENUMERATED {beamManagement, codebook, nonCodebook,antennaSwitching}, alpha Alpha p0 INTEGER (−202..24) pathlossReferenceRSCHOICE { ssb-Index SSB-Index, csi-RS-Index NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceIdSRS-SpatialRelationInfo ::= SEQUENCE { servingCellId ServCellIndexOPTIONAL,  -- Need S referenceSignal CHOICE { ssb-Index SSB-Index,csi-RS-Index NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId, srs SEQUENCE { resourceIdSRS-ResourceId, uplinkBWP BWP-Id } } } SRS-ResourceId ::= INTEGER(0..maxNrofSRS-Resources−1)

In Table 7, usage represents a higher layer parameter indicating whetherthe SRS resource set is used for the beam management or whether the SRSresource set is used for codebook based or non-codebook basedtransmission. The usage parameter corresponds to L1 parameter‘SRS-SetUse’. ‘spatialRelationInfo’ is a parameter representing aconfiguration of a spatial relation between a reference RS and a targetSRS. Here, the reference RS may become SSB, CSI-RS, or SRS correspondingto L1 parameter ‘SRS-SpatialRelationInfo’. The usage is configured foreach SRS resource set.

The UE determines a Tx beam for an SRS resource to be transmitted basedon SRS-SpatialRelation Info included in the SRS-Config IE (S1720). Here,SRS-SpatialRelation Info is configured for each SRS resource andrepresents a beam which is the same as the beam used in the SSB, theCSI-RS, or the SRS is to be applied for each SRS resource.

Further, SRS-SpatialRelationInfo may be configured or not configured ineach SRS resource.

If SRS-SpatialRelationInfo is configured in the SRS resource,SRS-SpatialRelationInfo is transmitted by applying the beam which is thesame as the beam used in the SSB, the CSI-RS, or the SRS. However, ifSRS-SpatialRelationInfo is not configured in the SRS resource, the UEarbitrarily determines the Tx beam and transmits the SRS through thedetermined Tx beam (S1730).

More specifically, for P-SRS in which ‘SRS-ResourceConfigType’ isconfigured as ‘periodic’:

-   i) When SRS-SpatialRelationInfo is configured as ‘SSB/PBCH’, the UE    transmits the corresponding SRS resource by applying a spatial    domain transmission filter which is the same as a spatial domain Rx    filter used for receiving the SSB/PBCH (or generated from the    corresponding filter); or-   ii) When SRS-SpatialRelationInfo is configured as ‘CSI-RS’, the UE    transmits the SRS resource by applying the same spatial domain    transmission filter used for receiving periodic CSI-RS or SP CSI-RS;    or-   iii) When SRS-SpatialRelationInfo is configured as ‘SRS’, the UE    transmits the SRS resource by applying the same spatial domain    transmission filter used for transmitting the periodic CSI-RS.

Even when ‘SRS-ResourceConfigType’ is configured as ‘SP-SRS’ or‘AP-SRS’, beam determination and transmission operations may be appliedsimilarly thereto.

-   Additionally, the UE may receive or not receive a feedback for the    SRS from the BS like three following cases (S1740).-   i) When Spatial_Relation_Info is configured for all SRS resources in    the SRS resource set, the UE transmits the SRS with the beam    indicated by the BS. For example, when all Spatial_Relation_Info    indicates the same SSB, CRI, or SRI, the UE repeatedly transmits the    SRS with the same beam. This case as a usage of selecting the Rx    beam by the BS corresponds to FIG. 16(a).-   ii) Spatial_Relation_Info may not be configured for all SRS    resources in the SRS resource set. In this case, the UE may transmit    the SRS while arbitrarily changing the SRS beam. In other words,    this case as a usage of sweeping the Tx beam by the UE corresponds    to FIG. 16(b).-   iii) Spatial_Relation_Info may be configured only for some SRS    resources in the SRS resource set. In this case, the SRS may be    transmitted with the beam configured for the configured SRS resource    and the UE may arbitrarily transmit the SRS by applying the Tx beam    to an SRS resource in which Spatial_Relation_Info is not configured.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing an example of a method of performing anIdle mode DRX operation.

The UE receives Idle mode DRX configuration information from the basestation through higher layer signaling (e.g., system information)(S1810).

In addition, the UE determines a Paging Frame (PF) for monitoring aphysical downlink control channel (e.g., PDCCH) in a DRX cycle and aPaging Occasion (PO) in the PF based on the Idle mode DRX configurationinformation (S1820). Here, the DRX cycle includes On duration and asleep interval (alternatively, Opportunity for DRX).

In addition, the UE monitors the PDCCH in the PO of the determined PF(S1830). The UE monitors only one subframe (PO) per paging DRX cycle.

Additionally, when the UE receives a PDCCH scrambled by P-RNTI for Onduration (i.e., when detecting paging), the UE transitions to aconnected mode to transmit and receive data to and from the basestation.

FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating an example of an Idle mode DRXoperation.

Referring to FIG. 19, when traffic destined for a UE in an RRC_Idlestate (hereinafter, referred to as an ‘Idle state’) occurs, pagingoccurs to the corresponding UE. The UE wakes up periodically, i.e.,every (paging) DRX cycle and monitors the PDCCH. When there is thepaging, the UE transitions to a Connected state and receives data andwhen there is no paging, the UE enters a sleep mode again.

Connected Mode DRX (C-DRX)

C-DRX may be DRX applied in an RRC Connected state and a DRX cycle ofthe C-DRX may be constituted by a Short DRX cycle and/or a Long DRXcycle. The Short DRX cycle is optional. When the C-DRX is configured,the UE monitors the PDCCH for On Duration. When there is a PDCCH whichis successfully detected while monitoring the PDCCH, the UE operates aninactivity timer and maintains an awake state. On the contrary, whenthere is no PDCCH which is successfully detected while monitoring PDCCH,the UE enters a sleep state after the On Duration ends. When the C-DRXis configured, a PDCCH reception occasion (e.g., a slot having a PDCCHsearch space) may be discontinuously configured according to the C-DRXconfiguration. On the contrary, when the C-DRX is not configured, thePDCCH reception occasion (e.g., the slot having the PDCCH search space)may be continuously configured. Meanwhile, regardless of whether theC-DRX is configured, PDCCH monitoring may be limited in a time intervalconfigured as a measurement gap.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart showing an example of a method of performing aC-DRX operation.

The UE receives from the eNB RRC signaling (e.g., MAC-MainConfig IE)including DRX configuration information (S2010). The DRX configurationinformation may include the following information.

-   onDurationTimer: The number of PDCCH subframes to be continuously    monitored a start part of the DRX cycle-   drx-InactivityTimer: The number of PDCCH subframes to be    continuously monitored when the UE decodes PDCCH having scheduling    information-   drx-RetransmissionTimer: The number of PDCCH subframes to be    continuously monitored when HARQ retransmission is predicted-   longDRX-Cycle: On Duration occurrence cycle-   drxStartOffset: subframe number in which the DRX cycle starts-   drxShortCycleTimer: The number of times of short DRX cycle-   shortDRX-Cycle: DRX cycle which operates at the number of times of    drxShortCycleTimer when Drx-InactivityTimer is terminated

In addition, when DRX ‘ON’ is configured through a DRX command of MACcommand element (CE) (S2020), the UE monitors the PDCCH for ON durationof the DRX cycle based on the DRX configuration (S2030).

FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating an example of a C-DRX operation.

Referring to FIG. 21, when the UE receives scheduling information (e.g.,DL Grant) in an RRC_Connected state (hereinafter, referred to asConnected state), the UE drives a DRX inactivity timer and an RRCinactivity timer.

When the DRX inactivity timer expires, a DRX mode starts and the UEwakes up at the DRX cycle and monitors the PDCCH for a predeterminedtime (on duration timer). Here, when Short DRX is configured, the UEstarts with a short DRX cycle when starting the DRX mode and when theshort DRX cycle ends, the UE enters a long DRX cycle. The long DRX cycleis a multiple of the short DRX cycle and the UE wakes up more frequentlyin the short DRX cycle. When the RRC inactivity timer expires, the UEtransitions to the Idle state and performs the Idle mode DRX operation.

IA/RA+DRX Operation

FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating an example of power consumptiondepending on a state of a UE.

Referring to FIG. 22, after power on, the UE performs Boot Up forapplication loading, an initial access/random access procedure forsynchronizing downlink and uplink with the base station, a registrationprocedure with the network, etc., and current (or power consumption)consumed while performing each procedure is illustrated in FIG. 15. Whenthe transmission power of the UE is high, current consumption of the UEincreases. In addition, when there is no traffic transmitted to the UEor to be transmitted to the base station, the UE transitions to the Idlemode and performs the Idle mode DRX operation. In addition, when paging(e.g., call occurrence) occurs during the Idle mode DRX operation, theUE transitions to the Connected mode to the Idle mode through a cellestablishment procedure and transmits and receives data to and from thebase station. In addition, when there is no data which the UE transmitsand receives to and from the base station in the connected mode for aspecific time or at a configured time, the UE performs the connected DRX(C-DRX) operation.

In addition, when the extended DRX (eDRX) is configured through thehigher layer signaling (e.g., system information), the UE may performthe eDRX operation in the Idle mode or Connected mode.

In consideration of the active time when configuring the DRX, whenperforming the instructed PDSCH/PUSCH transmission after receiving therepetitive transmission operation from the base station through the L1signaling or higher layer parameter at the time when the PDCCH can bereceived, the terminal may perform the method, embodiment, or operationproposed in the present disclosure described above. In addition, whenthe base station instructs or sets the repetitive transmission operationthrough L1 signaling or higher layer parameter in consideration of theactive time of the terminal and receives PDSCH/PUSCH transmission fromthe terminal, The base station may perform the method, embodiment, oroperation proposed in the present disclosure described above.

Each embodiment or each method described above may be performedseparately, and is performed by a combination of one or more embodimentsor methods to implement the method proposed in the present disclosure.

The base station/UE described in the present disclosure is just anexample and may be replaced with various devices described in FIGS. 36to 41, and applied.

Channel State Information (CSI) Related Procedure

FIG. 23 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a CSI relatedprocedure to which the method proposed in the present specification maybe applied.

In the new radio (NR) system, a channel state information-referencesignal (CSI-RS) is used for time/frequency tracking, CSI computation,layer 1(L1)-reference signal received power (RSRP) computation, ormobility

Throughout the present disclosure, “A and/or B” may be interpreted asthe same as “including at least one of A or B”.

The CSI computation is related to CSI acquisition, and L1-RSRPcomputation is related to beam management (BM).

The CSI indicates all types of information indicative of a quality of aradio channel (or link) formed between a UE and an antenna port.

To perform one of the above purposes of a CSI-RS, a terminal (e.g., aUE) receives CSI related configuration information from a base station(e.g., a general node B (gNB)) through a radio resource control (RRC)signaling(52310).

The CSI-related configuration information may include at least one ofCSI interference management (IM) resource-related information, CSImeasurement configuration-related information, CSI resourceconfiguration-related information, CSI-RS resource-related information,or CSI report configuration-related information.

The CSIIM resource-related information may include CSI-IM resourceinformation, CSI-IM resource set information, etc.

The CSI-IM resource set is identified by a CSI-IM resource set ID(identifier), and one resource set includes at least one CSI-IMresource.

Each CSI-IM resource is identified by a CSI-IM resource ID.

The CSI resource configuration-related information defines a groupincluding at least one of a non-zero power (NZP) CSI-RS resource set, aCSI-IM resource set, or a CSI-SSB resource set.

That is, the CSI resource configuration-related information includes aCSI-RS resource set list, and the CSI-RS resource set list may includeat least one of a NZP CSI-RS resource set list, a CSI-IM resource setlist, or a CSI-SSB resource set list.

The CSI resource configuration-related information may be expressed asCSI-REsourceConfig IE.

The CSI-RS resource set is identified by a CSI-RS resource set ID, andone resource set includes at least one CSI-RS resource.

Each CSI-RS resource is identified by a CSI-RS resource ID.

As shown in Table 8, parameters (e.g.: the BM-related parameterrepetition, and the tracking-related parameter trs-Info indicative of(orindicating) a purpose of a CSI-RS may be set for each NZP CSI-RSresource set.

Table 8 shows an example of NZP CSI-RS resource set IE.

TABLE 8 -- ASN1START -- TAG-NZP-CSI-RS-RESOURCESET-STARTNZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet ::= SEQUENCE { nzp-CSI-ResourceSetIdNZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSetId, nzp-CSI-RS-Resources SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofNZP-CSI-RS-ResourcesPerSet)) OF NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId,repetition ENUMERATED { on, off } aperiodicTriggeringOffsetINTEGER(0..4) trs-Info ENUMERATED {true} ... } --TAG-NZP-CSI-RS-RESOURCESET-STOP -- ASN1STOP

In Table 8, the parameter repetition is a parameter indicative ofwhether to repeatedly transmit the same beam, and indicates whetherrepetition is set to “ON” or “OFF” for each NZP CSI-RS resource set.

The term “transmission (Tx) beam” used in the present disclosure may beinterpreted as the same as a spatial domain transmission filter, and theterm “reception (Rx) beam” used in the present disclosure may beinterpreted as the same as a spatial domain reception filter.

For example, when the parameter repetition in Table 8 is set to “OFF”, aUE does not assume that a NZP CSI-RS resource(s) in a resource set istransmitted to the same DL spatial domain transmission filter and thesame Nrofports in all symbols.

In addition, the parameter repetition corresponding to a higher layerparameter corresponds to “CSI-RS-ResourceRep” of L1 parameter.

The CSI report configuration related information includes the parameterreportConfigType indicative of a time domain behavior and the parameterreportQuantity indicative of a CSI-related quantity to be reported.

The time domain behavior may be periodic, aperiodic, or semi-persistent.

In addition, the CSI report configuration-related information may berepresented as CSI-ReportConfig IE, and Table 9 shows an example of theCSI-ReportConfig IE.

TABLE 9 -- ASN1START -- TAG-CSI-RESOURCECONFIG-START CSI-ReportConfig::= SEQUENCE { reportConfigId CSI-ReportConfigId, carrier ServCellIndexOPTIONAL,  -- Need S resourcesForChannelMeasurementCSI-ResourceConfigId, csi-IM-ResourcesForInterferenceCSI-ResourceConfigId OPTIONAL,  -- Need Rnzp-CSI-RS-ResourcesForInterference CSI-ResourceConfigId OPTIONAL,  --Need R reportConfigType CHOICE { periodic SEQUENCE { reportSlotConfigCSI-ReportPeriodicityAndOffset, pucch-CSI-ResourceList SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxNrofBWPs)) OF PUCCH-CSI-Resource }, semiPersistentOnPUCCHSEQUENCE { reportSlotConfig CSI-ReportPeriodicityAndOffset,pucch-CSI-ResourceList SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofBWPs)) OFPUCCH-CSI-Resource }, semiPersistentOnPUSCH SEQUENCE { reportSlotConfigENUMERATED {sl5, sl10, sl20, sl40, sl80, sl160, sl320},reportSlotOffsetList SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..maxNrofUL- Allocations)) OFINTEGER(0..32), p0alpha P0-PUSCH-AlphaSetId }, aperiodic SEQUENCE {reportSlotOffsetList SEQUENCE (SIZE (1.. maxNrofUL- Allocations)) OFINTEGER(0..32) } }, reportQuantity CHOICE { none NULL, cri-RI-PMI-CQINULL, cri-RI-i1 NULL, cri-RI-i1-CQI SEQUENCE { pdsch-BundleSizeForCSIENUMERATED {n2, n4} OPTIONAL }, cri-RI-CQI NULL, cri-RSRP NULL,ssb-Index-RSRP NULL, cri-RI-LI-PMI-CQI NULL },

In addition, the UE measures CSI based on configuration informationrelated to the CSI (S2320).

Measuring the CSI may include (1) receiving a CSI-RS by the UE (S2322)and (2) computing CSI based on the received CSI-RS (S2324).

A sequence for the CSI-RS is generated by Equation 2, and aninitialization value of a pseudo-random sequence C(i) is defined byEquation 3.

$\begin{matrix}{{r(m)} = {{\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left( {1 - {2 \cdot {c\left( {2m} \right)}}} \right)} + {j\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left( {1 - {2 \cdot {c\left( {{2m} + 1} \right)}}} \right)}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 2} \right\rbrack \\{c_{init} = {\left( {{2^{10}\left( {{N_{symb}^{slot}n_{s,f}^{\mu}} + l + 1} \right)\left( {{2n_{ID}} + 1} \right)} + n_{ID}} \right){mod}\; 2^{31}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 3} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equations 2 and 3, n_(s,f) ^(μ) is a slot number within a radioframe, and a pseudo-random sequence generator is initialized with Cintat the start of each OFDM symbol where n_(s,f) ^(μ) is the slot numberwithin a radio frame.

In addition, 1 indicates an OFDM symbol number in a slot, and n_(ID)indicates higher-layer parameter scramblingID.

In addition, regarding the CSI-RS, resource element (RE) mapping ofCSI-RS resources of the CSI-RS is performed in time and frequencydomains by higher layer parameter CSI-RS -ResourceMapping.

Table 10 shows an example of CSI-RS-ResourceMapping IE.

TABLE 10 -- ASN1START -- TAG-CSI-RS-RESOURCEMAPPING-STARTCSI-RS-ResourceMapping ::= SEQUENCE { frequencyDomainAllocation CHOICE {row1 BIT STRING (SIZE (4)), row2 BIT STRING (SIZE (12)), row4 BIT STRING(SIZE (3)), other BIT STRING (SIZE (6)) }, nrofPorts ENUMERATED{p1,p2,p4,p8,p12,p16,p24,p32}, firstOFDMSymbolInTimeDomain INTEGER(0..13), firstOFDMSymbolInTimeDomain2 INTEGER (2..12) cdm-TypeENUMERATED {noCDM, fd-CDM2, cdm4-FD2- TD2, cdm8-FD2-TD4}, density CHOICE{ dot5 ENUMERATED {evenPRBs, oddPRBs}, one NULL, three NULL, spare NULL}, freqBand CSI-FrequencyOccupation, ... }

In Table10, a density (D) indicates a density of CSI-RS resourcesmeasured in a RE/port/physical resource block (PRB), and nrofPortsindicates the number of antenna ports.

In addition, the UE reports the measured CSI to the base station (S630).

Herein, when a quantity of CSI-ReportConfig in Table 6 is set to“none(or No report)”, the UE may skip the reporting.

However, even when the quantity is set to “none(or No report)”, the UEmay report the measured CSI to the base station.

The case where the quantity is set to “none” is t when an aperiodic TRSis triggered or when repetition is set.

Herein, it may be defined such that reporting by the UE is omitted onlywhen repetition is set to “ON”.

To put it briefly, when repetition is set to “ON” and “OFF”, CSIreporting may indicate any one of “No report”, “SSB Resource Indicator(SSBRI) and L I -RSRP”, and “CSI-RS Resource Indicator (CRI) andL1-RSRP”.

Alternatively, it may be defined to transmit CSI reporting indicative of“SSBRI and L1-RSRP” or “CRI and L1-RSRP” when repetition is set to“OFF”, it may be defined such that, and to transmit CSI reportingindicative of “No report”, “SSBRI and L1-RSRP”, or “CRI and L1-RSRP”when repetition is “ON”.

CSI Measurement and Reporting Procedure

The NR system supports more flexible and dynamic CSI measurement andreporting.

The CSI measurement may include a procedure of acquiring the CSI byreceiving the CSI-RS and computing the received CSI-RS.

As time domain behaviors of the CSI measurement and reporting,aperiodic/semi-persistent/periodic channel measurement (CM) andinterference measurement (IM) are supported.

A 4 port NZP CSI-RS RE pattern is used for configuring the CSI-IM.

CSI-IM based IMR of the NR has a similar design to the CSI-IM of the LTEand is configured independently of ZP CSI-RS resources for PDSCH ratematching.

In addition, in ZP CSI-RS based IMR, each port emulates an interferencelayer having (a preferable channel and) precoded NZP CSI-RS.

This is for intra-cell interference measurement with respect to amulti-user case and primarily targets MU interference.

The base station transmits the precoded NZP CSI-RS to the UE on eachport of the configured NZP CSI-RS based IMR.

The UE assumes a channel/interference layer for each port and measuresinterference.

In respect to the channel, when there is no PMI and RI feedback,multiple resources are configured in a set and the base station or thenetwork indicates a subset of NZP CSI-RS resources through the DCI withrespect to channel/interference measurement.

Resource setting and resource setting configuration will be described inmore detail.

Resource Setting

Each CSI resource setting ‘CSI-ResourceConfig’ includes a configurationfor S≥1 CSI resource set (given by higher layer parametercsi-RS-ResourceSetList).

Here, the CSI resource setting corresponds to theCSI-RS-resourcesetlist.

Here, S represents the number of configured CSI-RS resource sets.

Here, the configuration for S≥1 CSI resource set includes each CSIresource set including CSI-RS resources (constituted by NZP CSI-RS orCSI IM) and an SS/PBCH block (SSB) resource used for L1-RSRPcomputation.

Each CSI resource setting is positioned in a DL BWP (bandwidth part)identified by a higher layer parameter bwp-id.

In addition, all CSI resource settings linked to CSI reporting settinghave the same DL BWP.

A time domain behavior of the CSI-RS resource within the CSI resourcesetting included in CSI-ResourceConfig IE is indicated by higher layerparameter resourceType and may be configured to be aperiodic, periodic,or semi-persistent.

The number S of configured CSI-RS resource sets is limited to ‘1’ withrespect to periodic and semi-persistent CSI resource settings.

Periodicity and slot offset which are configured are given in numerologyof associated DL BWP as given by bwp-id with respect to the periodic andsemi-persistent CSI resource settings.

When the UE is configured as multiple CSI-ResourceConfigs including thesame NZP CSI-RS resource ID, the same time domain behavior is configuredwith respect to CSI-ResourceConfig.

When the UE is configured as multiple CSI-ResourceConfigs including thesame CSI-IM resource ID, the same time domain behavior is configuredwith respect to CSI-ResourceConfig.

Next, one or more CSI resource settings for channel measurement (CM) andinterference measurement (IM) are configured through higher layersignaling.

-   CSI-IM resource for interference measurement.-   NZP CSI-RS resource for interference measurement.-   NZP CSI-RS resource for channel measurement.

That is, channel measurement resource (CMR) may be NZP CSI-RS andinterference measurement resource (IMR) may be NZP CSI-RS for CSI-IM andIM.

Here, CSI-IM (or ZP CSI-RS for IM) is primarily used for inter-cellinterference measurement.

In addition, NZP CSI-RS for IM is primarily used for intra-cellinterference measurement from multi-users.

The UE may assume CSI-RS resource(s) for channel measurement andCSI-IM/NZP CSI-RS resource(s) for interference measurement configuredfor one CSI reporting are ‘QCL-TypeD’ for each resource.

Resource Setting Configuration

As described, the resource setting may mean a resource set list.

In each trigger state configured by using higher layer parameterCSI-AperiodicTriggerState with respect to aperiodic CSI, eachCSI-ReportConfig is associated with one or multiple CSI-ReportConfigslinked to the periodic, semi-persistent, or aperiodic resource setting.

One reporting setting may be connected with a maximum of three resourcesettings.

-   When one resource setting is configured, the resource setting (given    by higher layer parameter resourcesForChannelMeasurement) is for    channel measurement for L1-RSRP computation.-   When two resource settings are configured, a first resource setting    (given by higher layer parameter resourcesForChannelMeasurement) is    for channel measurement and a second resource setting (given by    csi-IM-ResourcesForInterference or nzp-CSI-RS    ResourcesForInterference) is for interference measurement performed    on CSI-IM or NZP CSI-RS.-   When three resource settings are configured, a first resource    setting (given by resourcesForChannelMeasurement) is for channel    measurement, a second resource setting (given by    csi-IM-ResourcesForInterference) is for CSI-IM based interference    measurement, and a third resource setting (given by    nzp-CSI-RS-ResourcesForInterference) is for NZP CSI-RS based    interference measurement.

Each is linked to periodic or semi-persistent resource setting withrespect to semi-persistent or periodic CSI.

-   When one resource setting (given by resourcesForChannelMeasurement)    is configured, the resource setting is for channel measurement for    L1-RSRP computation.-   When two resource settings are configured, a first resource setting    (given by resourcesForChannelMeasurement) is for channel measurement    and a second resource setting (given by higher layer parameter    csi-IM-ResourcesForinterference) is for interference measurement    performed on CSI-IM.

CSI measurement related CSI computation will be described.

When interference measurement is performed on CSI-IM, each CSI-RSresource for channel measurement is associated with the CSI-IM resourcefor each resource by an order of CSI-RS resources and CSI-IM resourceswithin a corresponding resource set.

The number of CSI-RS resources for channel measurement is equal to thenumber of CSI-IM resources.

In addition, when the interference measurement is performed in the NZPCSI-RS, the UE does not expect to be configured as one or more NZPCSI-RS resources in the associated resource set within the resourcesetting for channel measurement.

A UE in which Higher layer parameter nzp-CSI-RS-ResourcesForinterferenceis configured does not expect that 18 or more NZP CSI-RS ports will beconfigured in the NZP CSI-RS resource set.

For CSI measurement, the UE assumes the followings.

-   Each NZP CSI-RS port configured for interference measurement    corresponds to an interference transport layer.-   All interference transport layers of the NZP CSI-RS port for    interference measurement consider an energy per resource element    (EPRE) ratio.-   Different interference signals on RE(s) of the NZP CSI-RS resource    for channel measurement, the NZP CSI-RS resource for interference    measurement, or CSI-IM resource for interference measurement.

A CSI reporting procedure will be described in more detail.

For CSI reporting, time and frequency resources which may be used by theUE are controlled by the base station.

The channel state information (CSI) may include at least one of achannel quality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), aCSI-RS resource indicator (CRI), an SS/PBCH block resource indicator(SSBRI), a layer indicator (LI), a rank indicator (RI), and L 1 -RSRP.

For the CQI, PMI, CRI, SSBRI, LI, RI, and L1-RSRP, the UE is configuredby a higher layer as N≥1 CSI-ReportConfig reporting setting, M≥1CSI-ResourceConfig resource setting, and a list (provided byaperiodicTriggerStateList and semiPersistentOnPUSCH) of one or twotrigger states.

In the aperiodicTriggerStateList, each trigger state includes thechannel and an associated CSI-ReportConfigs list optionally indicatingresource set IDs for interference.

In the semiPersistentOnPUSCH-TriggerStateList, each trigger stateincludes one associated CSI-ReportConfig.

In addition, the time domain behavior of CSI reporting supportsperiodic, semi-persistent, and aperiodic.

Hereinafter, each of periodic, semi-persistent (SP), and aperiodic CSIreporting will be described.

The periodic CSI reporting is performed on short PUCCH and long PUCCH.

The periodicity and slot offset of the periodic CSI reporting may beconfigured as RRC and refer to the CSI-ReportConfig IE.

Next, SP CSI reporting is performed on short PUCCH, long PUCCH, orPUSCH.

In the case of SP CSI on the short/long PUCCH, the periodicity and theslot offset are configured as the RRC and the CSI reporting to separateMAC CE is activated/deactivated.

In the case of the SP CSI on the PUSCH, the periodicity of the SP CSIreporting is configured as the RRC, but the slot offset is notconfigured as the RRC and the SP CSI reporting is activated/deactivatedby DCI (format 0_1).

An initial CSI reporting timing follows a PUSCH time domain allocationvalue indicated in the DCI and a subsequent CSI reporting timing followsa periodicity configured as the RRC.

Separated RNTI (SP-CSI C-RNTI) is used with respect to the SP CSIreporting on the PUSCH.

DCI format 0_1 may include a CSI request field and mayactivate/deactivate a specific configured SP-CSI trigger state.

In addition, the SP CSI reporting has the same or similaractivation/deactivation as a mechanism having data transmission on SPSPUSCH.

Next, the aperiodic CSI reporting is performed on the PUSCH and istriggered by the DCI.

In the case of AP CSI having AP CSI-RS, an AP CSI-RS timing isconfigured by the RRC.

Here, timing for the AP CSI reporting is dynamically controlled by theDCI.

The NR does not adopt a scheme (for example, transmitting RI, WBPMI/CQI, and SB PMI/CQI in order) of dividing and reporting the CSI inmultiple reporting instances applied to PUCCH based CSI reporting in theLTE.

Instead, the NR restricts specific CSI reporting not to be configured inthe short/long PUCCH and a CSI omission rule is defined.

In addition, in relation with the AP CSI reporting timing, a PUSCHsymbol/slot location is dynamically indicated by the DCI. In addition,candidate slot offsets are configured by the RRC.

For the CSI reporting, slot offset(Y) is configured for each reportingsetting.

For UL-SCH, slot offset K2 is configured separately.

Two CSI latency classes (low latency class and high latency class) aredefined in terms of CSI computation complexity.

The low latency CSI is a WB CSI that includes up to 4 ports Type-Icodebook or up to 4-ports non-PMI feedback CSI.

The high latency CSI refers to CSI other than the low latency CSI.

For a normal UE, (Z, Z′) is defined in a unit of OFDM symbols.

Z represents a minimum CSI processing time from the reception of theaperiodic CSI triggering DCI to the execution of the CSI reporting.

Z′ represents a minimum CSI processing time from the reception of theCSI-RS for channel/interference to the execution of the CSI reporting.

Additionally, the UE reports the number of CSIs which may besimultaneously calculated.

Type II Codebook

A UE is configured with 4 antenna ports {3000, 3001, . . . , 3003}, 8antenna ports {3000, 3001, . . . , 3007}, 12 antenna ports {3000, 3001,. . . , 3011}, 16 antenna ports {3000, 3001, . . . , 3032}, 32 antennaports {3000, 3001, . . . , 3031} and configured with a higher layerparameter codebookType set as ‘typeII’.

N1 and values of N1 are individually set as higher layer parametersn1-n2-codebookSubsetRestriction and CodebookConfig-N2. Supportedconfigurations of (N₁, N₂) and values corresponding to (O₁, O₂) for agiven number of CSI-RS ports are illustrated in Table 11.

TABLE 11 Number of CSI-RS antenna ports, P_(CSI-RS) (N_(g), N₁, N₂) (O₁,O₂) 8 (2, 2, 1) (4, 1) 16 (2, 4, 1) (4, 1) (4, 2, 1) (4, 1) (2, 2, 2)(4, 4) 32 (2, 8, 1) (4, 1) (4, 4, 1) (4, 1) (2, 4, 2) (4, 4) (4, 2, 2)(4, 4)

A value of L is set for a higher layer parameter numberOfbeams. In thiscase, when a value of a P_(CSI-RS) is 4, the value of L is 2. When avalue of a P_(CSI-RS) is greater than 4, the value of L belongs to {2,3, 4}.

A value of NPSK is set for a higher layer parameter phaseAlphabetSize,and the NPSK belongs to {4, 8}.

A UE sets subbandAmplitude, that is, a higher layer parameter, as ‘true’or ‘false’.

A UE should not report RI>2.

When a value v associated with an RI value is smaller than 2, codebookindices i1 and i2 corresponding to respective PMI values are the same asEquation 4.

$\begin{matrix}{\mspace{76mu}{i_{1} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}{\left\lbrack {i_{1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,2}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,4,1}} \right\rbrack\mspace{115mu}} & {v = 1} \\\left\lbrack {i_{1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,3}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,4,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,2}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,4,2}} \right\rbrack & {v = 2}\end{matrix}i_{2}} = \left\{ \begin{matrix}{\left\lbrack i_{2,1,1} \right\rbrack\mspace{169mu}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{false}’}},{v = 1}} \\{\left\lbrack {i_{2,1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,1,2}} \right\rbrack\mspace{115mu}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{false}’}},{v = 2}} \\{\left\lbrack {i_{2,1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,2,1}} \right\rbrack\mspace{115mu}} & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{v = 1}}\;} \\\left\lbrack {i_{2,1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,2,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,1,2}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,2,2}} \right\rbrack & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{v = 2}}\;}\end{matrix} \right.} \right.}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 4} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

L vectors combined by a codebook are identified by i_(1,1) and i_(1,2)indices, and values thereof are the same as Equation 5.

$\begin{matrix}{{i_{1,1} = \left\lbrack {q_{1}\mspace{14mu} q_{2}} \right\rbrack}{q_{1} \in \left\{ {0,1,\ldots\;,{O_{1} - 1}} \right\}}{q_{2} \in \left\{ {0,1,\ldots\;,{O_{2} - 1}} \right\}}{i_{1,2} \in \left\{ {0,1,\ldots\;,{\begin{pmatrix}{N_{1}N_{2}} \\L\end{pmatrix} - 1}} \right\}}{n_{1} = \left\lbrack {n_{1}^{(0)},\ldots\;,n_{1}^{({L - 1})}} \right\rbrack}{n_{2} = \left\lbrack {n_{2}^{(0)},\ldots\;,n_{2}^{({L - 1})}} \right\rbrack}{n_{1}^{(i)} \in \left\{ {0,1,\ldots\;,{N_{1} - 1}} \right\}}{n_{2}^{(i)} \in \left\{ {0,1,\ldots\;,{N_{2} - 1}} \right\}}{{C\left( {x,y} \right)} = \left\{ \begin{matrix}\begin{pmatrix}x \\y\end{pmatrix} & {x \geq y} \\0 & {x < y}\end{matrix} \right.}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 5} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 5, a value of C(x,y) is given by Table 12.

TABLE 12 y x 1 2 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 3 3 3 1 0 4 4 6 4 1 55 10 10 5 6 6 15 20 15 7 7 21 35 35 8 8 28 56 70 9 9 36 84 126 10 10 45120 210 11 11 55 165 330 12 12 66 220 495 13 13 78 286 715 14 14 91 3641001 15 15 105 455 1365

The elements of n₁ and n₂ may be derived from i_(1,2) based on Equation6.

$\begin{matrix}{\mspace{76mu}{{s_{- 1} = 0}\mspace{70mu}{{{{for}\mspace{14mu} i} = 0},K,{L - 1}}{{{Find}\mspace{14mu}{the}\mspace{14mu}{largest}\mspace{14mu} x^{*}} \in {\left\{ {{L - 1 - i},K,{{N_{1}N_{2}} - 1 - i}} \right\}\mspace{14mu}{in}\mspace{14mu}{Table}\mspace{14mu} 5.2{.2}{.2}{.3}\text{-}1\mspace{14mu}{such}\mspace{14mu}{that}}}\mspace{76mu}{{i_{1,2} - s_{i - 1}} \geq {C\left( {x^{*},{L - i}} \right)}}\mspace{76mu}{e_{i} = {C\left( {x^{*},{L - i}} \right)}}\mspace{76mu}{s_{i} = {s_{i - 1} + e_{i}}}\mspace{76mu}{n^{(i)} = {{N_{1}N_{2}} - 1 - x^{*}}}\mspace{76mu}{n_{1}^{(i)} = {n^{(i)}\mspace{14mu}{mod}\mspace{14mu} N_{1}}}\mspace{76mu}{n_{2}^{(i)} = \frac{\left( {n^{(i)} - n_{1}^{(i)}} \right)}{N_{1}}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 6} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

When values of n1 and n2 are known values, i1,2 may be derived byEquation 7.

[Equation 7] n^((i))=N₁n₂ ^((i))+n₁ ^((i)). In this case, index i=0, 1,. . . , L-1 is allocated so that n^((i)) is increased as i is increased.

$i_{1,2} = {\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{L - 1}\;{C\left( {{{N_{1}N_{2}} - 1 - n^{(i)}},{L - i}} \right)}}$

When an N₂ value is 1, a q₂ value is 0, and a value of n₂ ^((i)) fori=0, 1 , . . . , L-1 is 0, q₂ is not reported.

-   When (N₁, N₂)=(2,1), n₁=[0,1] and n₂=[0,0], i_(1,2) is not reported.-   When (N₁, N₂)=(4,1), L=4, n₁=[0,1, 2, 3] and n₂=[0, 0, 0, 0],    i_(1,2) is not reported.-   When (N₁, N₂)=(2,2), L=4, n₁=[0,1, 0, 1] and n2=[0, 0, 1, 1],    i_(1,2) is not reported.

On a Layer l(l=1, . . . v), the greatest coefficient is identified byi_(1,3,l)∈ {0, 1, . . . , 2L-1}.

an amplification coefficient indicator i_(1,4,l) and i_(2,2,l) are thesame as Equation 8.

i_(1,4,l)=[k_(l,0) ⁽¹⁾, k_(l,1) ⁽¹⁾, . . . , k_(l,2L-1) ⁽¹⁾]

i_(2,2,l)=[k_(l,0) ⁽²⁾, . . . , k_(l,2L-1) ⁽²⁾]

k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾ ∈ {0, 1, . . . , 7}

k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ ∈ {0,1}  [Equation 8]

With respect to l=1, . . . , v, the mapping from k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾ to anamplification coefficient p_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾ is the same as Table 13. Mappingfrom k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ to an amplification coefficient p_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ is the sameas Table 14.

In this case, the amplification coefficient is the same as Equation 9.

p_(l) ⁽¹⁾=[p_(l,0) ⁽¹⁾, p_(l,1) ⁽¹⁾, . . . , p_(l,2L-1) ⁽¹⁾]

p_(l) ⁽²⁾=[p_(l,0) ⁽²⁾, p_(l,1) ⁽²⁾, . . . , p_(l,2L-1) ⁽²⁾]  [Equation9]

TABLE 13 k_(l, i) ⁽¹⁾ p_(l, i) ⁽¹⁾ 0 0 1 √{square root over (1/64)} 2√{square root over (1/32)} 3 √{square root over (1/16)} 4 √{square rootover (1/8)} 5 √{square root over (1/4)} 6 √{square root over (1/2)} 7 1

TABLE 14 k_(l, i) ⁽²⁾ p_(l, i) ⁽²⁾ 0 √{square root over (1/2)} 1 1

A phase coefficient indicator is the same as Equation 10.

i_(2,1,l)=[c_(l,0), c_(l,1), . . . , c_(l,2L-1)] for l=1, . . . , v  [Equation 10]

Amplitude and phase coefficient indicators are reported as follows.

-   An indicator k_(l,i) _(1,3,l) ⁽¹⁾=7, k_(l,i) _(1,3,l) ⁽²⁾=1 and    c_(l,i) _(1,3,l) =0(l=1, . . . v). k_(l,i) _(1,3,l) ⁽¹⁾, k_(l,i)    _(1,3,l) ⁽²⁾ and c_(l,i) _(1,3,l) is not reported with respect to    l=1, . . . , v.-   The remaining 2L-1 elements of i_(1,4,l)(l=1, . . . v) are not    reported. In this case, k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾ ∈ {0, 1, . . . , 7}. M_(l)(l=1,    . . . , v) may be the number of elements of i_(1,4,l) satisfying    k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾>0.-   The remaining 2L-1 elements of i_(2,1,l) and i_(2,2,l) are reported    as follows.-   When subbandAmplitude is set as “false”,-   k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ for l=0, 1, . . . , v and i=0, 1, . . . , 2L-1.    i_(2,2,l) is not reported with respect to l=1, . . . , v.-   With respect to l=1, . . . , v, an element of i_(2,1,l)    corresponding to a coefficient satisfying k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾>0, i≠i_(1,3,l)    is not reported. In this case, c_(l,i) ∈{0, 1, . . . , N_(PSK)−1}    and the remaining elements of 2L-M₁ of i_(2,1,l) are not reported,    and are set as c_(l,i)=0.-   When subbandAmplitude is set as “true”,-   With respect to l=0, 1, . . . , v, as determined by a corresponding    report element of i_(1,4,l), elements of i_(2,2,l) and i_(2,1,l)    corresponding to the strongest coefficient of min(M_(l), K⁽²⁾)−1    (other than the strongest coefficient indicated by i_(1,3,l)) are    reported. In this case, k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ ∈ {0, 1}, and c_(l,i) ∈{0, 1, .    . . , N_(PSK)−1}. A value of K⁽²⁾ is given by Table 15. The    remaining 2L-min(M_(l), K⁽²⁾) elements of i_(2,2,l) are not    reported, and are set as k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾=1. The elements of i_(2,2,l)    corresponding to a coefficient M_(l)-min(M_(l), K⁽²⁾) not the    weakest 0dl are reported. In this case, c_(l,i) ∈{0, 1, 2, 3}. The    remaining 2L-M₁ elements of i_(2,2,l) are not reported, and are set    as c_(l,i)=0.

In the case of two elements, k_(l,x) ⁽¹⁾ and k_(l,y) ⁽¹⁾ for thereported element of i_(1,4,l) are the same as (k_(l,x) ⁽¹⁾=k_(l,y) ⁽¹⁾),an element min(x, y) is assigned priority so that it is included in aset of the strongest coefficient of min(M_(l), K⁽²⁾)−1 for i_(2,1,l) andi_(2,2,l)(l=1, . . . v) report.

TABLE 15 L K⁽²⁾ 2 4 3 4 4 6

Codebooks in the 1 and 2 layers are given in Table 16. In this case,indices m₁ ^((i)) and m₂ ^((i)) are given by Equation 11.

m ₁ ^((i)) =O ₁ n ₁ ^((i)) +q ₁

m ₂ ^((i)) =O ₂ n ₂ ^((i)) +q ₂   [Equation 11]

In Equation 11, φ_(l,i), μ_(m) and v_(l,m) for i=0, 1, . . . , L-1 aregiven by Equation 12.

$\begin{matrix}{\varphi_{l,i} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}e^{j\; 2\pi\; c_{l,i}\text{/}N_{PSK}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{false}’}}\mspace{725mu}} \\e^{j\; 2\pi\; c_{l,i}\text{/}N_{PSK}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{{{\min\left( {M_{l},K^{(2)}} \right)}\mspace{14mu}{strongest}\mspace{14mu}{coefficients}\mspace{14mu}\left( {{including}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,1}} \right)\mspace{14mu}{with}\mspace{14mu} k_{l,i}^{(1)}} > 0}} \\{e^{j\; 2\pi\; c_{l,i}\text{/}4}\mspace{40mu}} & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{{M_{l} - {{\min\left( {M_{l},K^{(2)}} \right)}\mspace{14mu}{weakest}\mspace{14mu}{coefficients}\mspace{14mu}{with}\mspace{14mu} k_{l,i}^{(1)}}} > 0}}\mspace{135mu}} \\{1\mspace{110mu}} & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{{{2L} - {M_{l}\mspace{14mu}{coefficients}\mspace{14mu}{with}\mspace{14mu} k_{l,i}^{(1)}}} = 0}}\mspace{349mu}}\end{matrix}u_{m}} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}\left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} e^{j\frac{2\pi\; m}{O_{2\; N_{2}}}}\mspace{14mu}\cdots\mspace{14mu} e^{j\frac{2\pi\;{m{({N_{2} - 1})}}}{O_{2}N_{2}}}} \right\rbrack & {N_{2} > 1} \\1 & {N_{2} = 1}\end{matrix}v_{l,m}} = \left\lbrack {u_{m}\mspace{14mu} e^{j\frac{2\pi\; l}{O_{1}N_{1}}}u_{m}\mspace{14mu}\cdots\mspace{14mu} e^{j\frac{2\pi\;{l{({N_{1} - 1})}}}{O_{1}N_{1}}}u_{m}} \right\rbrack^{T}} \right.} \right.} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 12} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

TABLE 16 Layers υ = 1 W_(q) ₁ _(,q) ₂ _(,n) ₁ _(,n) ₂ _(,p) ₁ ₍₁₎ _(,p)₁ ₍₂₎ _(,i) _(2,1,1) ⁽¹⁾ = W_(q) ₁ _(,q) ₂ _(,n) ₁ _(,n) ₂ _(,p) ₁ ₍₁₎_(,p) ₁ ₍₂₎ _(,i) _(2,1,1) ¹ υ = 2$W_{q_{1},q_{2},n_{1},n_{2},p_{1}^{(1)},p_{1}^{(2)},i_{2,1,1},p_{2}^{(1)},p_{2}^{(2)},i_{2,1,2}}^{(q)} = {\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{bmatrix}W_{q_{1},q_{2},n_{1},n_{2},p_{1}^{(1)},p_{1}^{(2)},i_{2,1,1}}^{1} & W_{q_{1},q_{2},n_{1},n_{2},p_{2}^{(1)},p_{2}^{(2)},i_{2,1,2}}^{2}\end{bmatrix}}$${{{where}\mspace{14mu} W_{q_{1},q_{2},n_{1},n_{2},p_{l}^{(1)},p_{l}^{(2)},c_{l}}^{l}} = {\frac{1}{\sqrt{N_{1}N_{2}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{{2L} - 1}\left( {p_{l,i}^{(1)}p_{l,i}^{(2)}} \right)^{2}}}}\begin{bmatrix}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{L - 1}{v_{m_{1}^{(i)},m_{2}^{(i)}}p_{l,i}^{(1)}p_{l,i}^{(2)}\varphi_{l,i}}} \\{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{L - 1}{v_{m_{1}^{(i)},m_{2}^{(i)}}p_{l,{i + L}}^{(1)}p_{l,{i + L}}^{(2)}\varphi_{l,{i + L}}}}\end{bmatrix}}},{l = 1},2,$ and the mappings from i₁ to q₁, q₂, n₁, n₂,p₁ ⁽¹⁾, and p₂ ⁽¹⁾, and fromi₂ to i_(2,1,1), i_(2,1,2), p₁ ⁽²⁾ and p₂⁽²⁾ are as described above, including the ranges of the constituentindices of i₁ and i₂.

If a UE is configured with a higher layer parameter codebookType set as“type II”, a bitmap parameter typeII-RI-Restriction forms bit sequencesr₁, r₀. In this case, r₀ is the LSB, and r₁ is the MSB. If r_(i) iszero, i∈{0, 1}, PMI and RI report does not correspond to any precoderassociated with υ=i+1 layers.

A bitmap parameter nI-n2-codebookSubsetRestriction form a bit sequenceB=B₁B₂. In this case, the bit sequences B₁ and B₂ are connected to formB. In order to define B₁ and B₂, first, O₁O₂ vector groups G(r₁,r₂) maybe defined as in Equation 13.

$\begin{matrix}{{{G\left( {r_{1},r_{2}} \right)} = \left\{ {{{v_{\text{?}}\text{:}x_{1}} = 0},1,K,{{N_{1} - {\text{?}x_{2}}} = 0},1,K,{N_{2} - 1}} \right\}}\mspace{20mu}{for}{\text{?} \in \left\{ {0,1,K,{0_{1} - 1}} \right\}}{\text{?} \in {{\left\{ {0,1,K,{0_{2} - 1}} \right\}.\text{?}}\text{indicates text missing or illegible when filed}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 13} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

A UE may be configured with restriction for 4 vector groups indicated by(r₁ ^((k)), r₂ ^((k))) for k=0, 1, 2, 3 and identified by group indicesof Equation 14.

g ^((k)) =O ₁ r ₂ ^((k)) +r ₁ ^((k))   [Equation 14]

With respect to k=0, 1, . . . , 3, indices are allocated so that g^((k))is increased as k is increased, and the remaining vector groups are notrestricted.

-   When N2=1, g^((k))=k and B₁ is empted with respect to k=0, 1, . . .    , 3.-   When N2>1, B₁=b₁ ⁽¹⁰⁾ . . . b₁ ⁽⁰⁾ is a binary representation of an    integer β₁. In this case, b₁ ⁽¹⁰⁾ is t he MSB, and b₁ ⁽⁰⁾ is the    LSB. In this case, β₁ may be calculated based on Equation 15.

$\begin{matrix}{\beta_{1} = {\sum\limits_{k = 0}^{3}\;{C\left( {{{O_{1}O_{2}} - 1 - g^{(k)}},{4 - k}} \right)}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 15} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 15, C(x, y) may be defined in Table 17. A group indexg^((k)) and indicators for k=0, 1, 2, 3 may be calculated from β₁ byusing the following algorithm of Equation 16.

$\begin{matrix}{\mspace{76mu}{{s_{- 1} = 0}\mspace{76mu}{{{{for}\mspace{14mu} k} = 0},K,3}{{{Find}\mspace{14mu}{the}\mspace{14mu}{largest}\mspace{14mu} x^{*}} \in {{{\left\{ {{3 - k},K,{{O_{1}O_{2}} - 1 - k}} \right\}\mspace{14mu}{such}\mspace{14mu}{that}\mspace{14mu}\beta_{1}} - s_{k - 1}} \geq {C\left( {x^{*},{4 - k}} \right)}}}\mspace{76mu}{e_{k} = {C\left( {x^{*},{4 - k}} \right)}}\mspace{76mu}{s_{k} = {s_{k - 1} + e_{k}}}\mspace{76mu}{g^{(k)} = {{O_{1}O_{2}} - 1 - x^{*}}}\mspace{76mu}{r_{1}^{(k)} = {g^{(k)}\mspace{14mu}{mod}\mspace{14mu} O_{1}}}\mspace{76mu}{r_{2}^{(k)} = \frac{\left( {g^{(k)} - r_{1}^{(k)}} \right)}{O_{1}}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 16} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

A bit sequence B₂=B₂ ⁽⁰⁾B₂ ⁽¹⁾B₂ ⁽²⁾B₂ ⁽³⁾ is a combination of bitsequences B₂ ^((k)) for k=0,1, . . . 3 corresponding to group indicesg^((k)). The bit sequence B₂ ^((k)) may be defined as in Equation 17.

B ₂ ^((k)) =b ₂ ^((k,2N) ¹ ^(N) ² ⁻¹⁾ . . . b ₁ ^((k,0))   [Equation 17]

Bits b₂ ^((k,2(N) ¹ ^(x) ² ^(+x) ¹ ⁾⁺¹⁾b₂ ^((k,2(N) ¹ ^(x) ² ^(+x) ¹ ⁾⁾indicate a maximum allowed amplification coefficient p_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾ for avector in a group g^((k)) indexed by x₁, x₂, and the maximumamplification coefficient may be given by Table 17.

TABLE 17 Maximum Amplitude Bits Coefficient b₂ ^((k, 2(N) ¹ ^(x) ² ^(+x)¹ ⁾⁺¹⁾b₂ ^((k, 2(N) ¹ ^(x) ² ^(+x) ¹ ⁾⁾ p_(l, i) ⁽¹⁾ 00 0 01 √{squareroot over (1/4)} 10 √{square root over (1/2)} 11 1

Type II Port Selection Codebook

A UE is configured with 4 antenna ports {3000, 3001, . . . , 3003}, 8antenna ports {3000, 3001, . . . , 3007}, 12 antenna ports {3000, 3001,. . . , 3011}, 16 antenna ports {3000, 3001, . . . , 3032}, 32 antennaports {3000, 3001, . . . , 3031} and configured with a higher layerparameter codebookType set as ‘typeII-PortSelection’.

-   The number of CSI-RS ports is given by a P_(CSI-RS)∈{4, 8, 12, 16,    24, 32} as set by a higher layer parameter nrofPorts.-   A value of L is set as a higher layer parameter numberOfBeams. When    the P_(CSI-RS) is 4, a value of L is 2. When the P_(CSI-RS) is    greater than 4, L∈{2, 3, 4}.-   A value of d is set as a higher layer parameter    portSelectionSamplingSize. In this case, d satisfies d ∈ {1,2,3,4}    and

$d \leq {{\min\left( {\frac{P_{{CSI} - {RS}}}{2},L} \right)}.}$

a value of NPSK is configured with respect to a higher layer parameterphaseAlphabetSize, N_(PSK) belongs to {4, 8}.

-   A UE is configured by setting subbandAmplitude, that is, a higher    layer parameter, as ‘true’ or ‘false’.-   A UE should not report RI>2.

Furthermore, a UE is set as a higher layer parametertypeII-PortSelectionRI-Restriction. The bitmap parametertypeII-PortSelectionRI-Restriction forms bit sequences r₁, r₀. In thiscase, r₀ is the LSB, and r₁ is the MSB. When r₁ is zero, i∈{0, 1}, PMIand RI reports do not correspond to any precoder associated with υ=i+1layers.

When a v value associated with an RI value is smaller than 2, codebookindices i1 and i2 corresponding to respective PMI values are the same asEquation 4.

$\begin{matrix}{i_{1} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}{\left\lbrack {i_{1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,4,1}} \right\rbrack\mspace{115mu}} & {v = 1} \\\left\lbrack {i_{1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,4,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,2}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,4,2}} \right\rbrack & {v = 2}\end{matrix}i_{2}} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}{\left\lbrack i_{2,1,1} \right\rbrack\mspace{169mu}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{false}’}},{v = 1}} \\{\left\lbrack {i_{2,1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,1,2}} \right\rbrack\mspace{115mu}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{false}’}},{v = 2}} \\{\left\lbrack {i_{2,1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,2,1}} \right\rbrack\mspace{115mu}} & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{v = 1}}\;} \\\left\lbrack {i_{2,1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,2,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,1,2}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,2,2}} \right\rbrack & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{v = 2}}\;}\end{matrix}i_{1}} = \left\{ {{\begin{matrix}\left\lbrack {i_{1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,2}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,4,1}} \right\rbrack & {v = 1} \\\left\lbrack {i_{1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,2}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,4,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,2}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,4,2}} \right\rbrack & {v = 2}\end{matrix}i_{2}} = \left\{ \begin{matrix}{\left\lbrack i_{2,1,1} \right\rbrack\mspace{169mu}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{false}’}},{v = 1}} \\{\left\lbrack {i_{2,1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,1,2}} \right\rbrack\mspace{115mu}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{false}’}},{v = 2}} \\{\left\lbrack {i_{2,1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,2,1}} \right\rbrack\mspace{115mu}} & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{v = 1}}\;} \\\left\lbrack {i_{2,1,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,2,1}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,1,2}\mspace{14mu} i_{2,2,2}} \right\rbrack & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{v = 2}}\;}\end{matrix} \right.} \right.} \right.} \right.} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 18} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 18, L vectors combined by a codebook are identified byi_(1,1) and i_(1,2) indices, and values thereof are the same asEquations 19 and 20.

$\begin{matrix}{i_{1,1} \in \left\{ {0,1,\ldots\;,{\left\lceil \frac{P_{{CSI} - {RS}}}{2d} \right\rceil - 1}} \right\}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 19} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In the layer l, l=1, . . . , v, the strongest coefficient is identifiedby i_(1,3,l) ∈ {0, 1, . . . , 2L-1}.

Amplification coefficient indicators i_(1,4,l) and i_(2,2,l) are thesame as Equation 20.

i_(1,4,l)=[k_(l,0) ⁽¹⁾, k_(l,1) ⁽¹⁾, . . . , k_(l,2L-1) ⁽¹⁾]

i_(2,24,l)=[k_(l,0) ⁽²⁾, k_(l,1) ⁽²⁾, . . . , k_(l,2L-1) ⁽²⁾]

k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾ ∈ {0, 1, . . . , 7}

k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ ∈ {0, 1}  [Equation 20]

With respect to l=1, . . . , v, the mapping of an amplificationcoefficient p_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾ from k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾ is the same as Table 13, andmapping from k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ to an amplification coefficient p_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ isthe same as Table 14.

In this case, the amplification coefficient is the same as Equation 21.

p_(l) ⁽¹⁾=[p_(l,0) ⁽¹⁾, p_(l,1) ⁽¹⁾, . . . , p_(l,2L-1) ⁽¹⁾]

p_(l) ⁽²⁾=[p_(l,0) ⁽²⁾, p_(l,1) ⁽²⁾, . . . , p_(l,2L-1) ⁽²⁾]  [Equation21]

A phase coefficient indicator is the same as Equation 22.

i_(2,1,l)=[c_(l,0), c_(l,1), . . . , c_(l,2L-1)]  [Equation 22]

Amplitude and phase coefficient indicators are reported as follows.

-   An indicatork_(l,i) _(1,3,l) ⁽¹⁾=7, k_(l,i) _(1,3,l) ⁽²⁾=1 and    c_(l,i) _(1,3,l) =0(l=1, . . . v). k_(l,i) _(1,3,l) ⁽¹⁾, k_(l,i)    _(1,3,l) ⁽²⁾ and c_(l,i) _(1,3,l) are not reported with respect to    l=1, . . . , v.-   The remaining 2L-1 elements of i_(1,4,l)(l=1, . . . v) are not    reported. In this case, k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾ ∈ {0, 1, . . . , 7}. M_(l)(l=1,    . . . , v) may be the number of elements i_(1,4,l) satisfying    k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾>0.-   The remaining 2L-1 elements i_(2,1,l) and i_(2,2,l) are reported as    follows.-   When subbandAmplitude is set as “false”,-   k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ for l=0, 1, . . . , v and i=0, 1, . . . , 2L-1.    i_(2,11,l) is not reported with respect to l=1, . . . , v.-   With respect to l=1, . . . , v, elements of i_(2,1,l) corresponding    to a coefficient satisfying k_(l,i) ⁽¹⁾>0, i≠i_(1,3,l) is not    reported. In this case, c_(l,i) ∈{0, 1, . . . , N_(PSK)−1} and the    remaining elements of 2L-M₁ of i_(2,1,l) are not reported, and is    set as C_(l,i)=0.-   When subbandAmplitude is set as “true”,-   With respect to l=0, 1, . . . , v, as determined by a corresponding    report element of i_(1,4,l), elements of i_(2,2,l) and i_(2,1,l)    corresponding to the strongest coefficient of min(M_(l), K⁽²⁾)−1    (other than the strongest coefficient indicated by i_(1,3,l)) are    reported. In this case, k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾ ∈ {0, 1}, and c_(l,i) ∈{0, 1, .    . . , N_(PSK)−1}. A value of K⁽²⁾ is given by Table 15. The    remaining 2L-min(M_(l), K⁽²⁾) elements of i_(2,2,l) are not    reported, and are set as k_(l,i) ⁽²⁾=1. Elements of i_(2,2,l)    corresponding to a coefficient M_(l)-min(M_(l), K⁽²⁾) not the    weakest 0dl are reported. In this case, c_(l,i) ∈{0, 1, 2, 3}. The    remaining 2L-M_(l) elements of i_(2,2,l) are not reported, and set    as c_(l,i)=0.

In the case of two elements, k_(l,x) ⁽¹⁾ and k_(l,y) ⁽¹⁾ for thereported element of i_(1,4,l) are the same as (k_(l,x) ⁽¹⁾k_(l,y) ⁽¹⁾),and an element min(x, y) is assigned priority so that it is included ina set of the strongest coefficient of min(M_(l), K⁽²⁾)−1 for i_(2,1,l)and i_(2,2,l)(l=1, . . . v) report.

Codebooks for the 1-2 layers are given in Table 18. In this case,φ_(l,i) is given by Equation 23.

$\begin{matrix}{\varphi_{l,i} = \left\{ \begin{matrix}e^{j\; 2\pi\; c_{l,i}\text{/}N_{PSK}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{false}’}}\mspace{725mu}} \\e^{j\; 2\pi\; c_{l,i}\text{/}N_{PSK}} & {{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{{{\min\left( {M_{l},K^{(2)}} \right)}\mspace{14mu}{strongest}\mspace{14mu}{coefficients}\mspace{14mu}\left( {{including}\mspace{14mu} i_{1,3,1}} \right)\mspace{14mu}{with}\mspace{14mu} k_{l,i}^{(1)}} > 0}} \\{e^{j\; 2\pi\; c_{l,i}\text{/}4}\mspace{40mu}} & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{{M_{l} - {{\min\left( {M_{l},K^{(2)}} \right)}\mspace{14mu}{weakest}\mspace{14mu}{coefficients}\mspace{14mu}{with}\mspace{14mu} k_{l,i}^{(1)}}} > 0}}\mspace{135mu}} \\{1\mspace{110mu}} & {{{{subbandAmplitude} = {‘{true}’}},{{{2L} - {M_{l}\mspace{14mu}{coefficients}\mspace{14mu}{with}\mspace{14mu} k_{l,i}^{(1)}}} = 0}}\mspace{349mu}}\end{matrix} \right.} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 23} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

v_(m) is a P_(CSI-RS)/2-element column vector including a value of 1 inan element (m mod P_(CSI-RS)/2) and 0 at a different place.

TABLE 18 Layers υ = 1 W_(i) _(1,1) _(,p) ₁ ₍₁₎ _(,p) ₁ ₍₂₎ _(,i)_(2,1,1) ⁽¹⁾ = W_(i) _(1,1) _(,p) ₁ ₍₁₎ _(,p) ₁ ₍₂₎ _(,i) _(2,1,1) ¹ υ =2$W_{i_{1,1},p_{1}^{(1)},p_{1}^{(2)},i_{2,1,1},p_{2}^{(1)},p_{2}^{(2)},i_{2,1,2}}^{(2)} = {\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{bmatrix}W_{i_{1,1},p_{1}^{(1)},p_{1}^{(2)},i_{2,1,1}}^{1} & W_{i_{1,1},p_{2}^{(1)},p_{2}^{(2)},i_{2,1,2}}^{2}\end{bmatrix}}$${{{where}\mspace{14mu} W_{i_{1,1},p_{l}^{(1)},p_{l}^{(2)},i_{2,1,l}}^{l}} = {\frac{1}{\sqrt{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{{2L} - 1}\left( {p_{l,i}^{(1)}p_{l,i}^{(2)}} \right)^{2}}}\begin{bmatrix}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{L - 1}{v_{{i_{1,1}d} + i}p_{l,i}^{(1)}p_{l,i}^{(2)}\varphi_{l,i}}} \\{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{L - 1}{v_{{i_{1,1}d} + i}p_{l,{i + L}}^{(1)}p_{l,{i + L}}^{(2)}\varphi_{l,{i + L}}}}\end{bmatrix}}},{l = 1},2,$ and the mappings from i₁ to i_(1,1), p₁ ⁽¹⁾,and p₂ ⁽¹⁾ and fromi₂ to i_(2,1,1), i_(2,1,2), p₁ ⁽²⁾, and p₂ ⁽²⁾ are asdescribed above, including the ranges of the constituent indices of i₁and i₂.

CSI Reporting Using PUSCH

FIG. 24 illustrates an example of an information payload of PUSCH basedCSI reporting.

NZBI is a parameter representing an indication of the number of non-zerowideband amplitude coefficients per layer for the Type II PMI codebook.

That is, NZBI is a parameter representing an indication of the number ofnon-zero wideband amplitude coefficients per layer for the Type II PMIcodebook.

That is, NZBI is an indicator indicating 0 or a relative amplitudecoefficient other than 0.

Alternatively, NZBI may represent the number of zero amplitude beams ornon-zero amplitude beams and may be referred to as N_RPI0.

When decoding for the DCI is successful, the UE performs aperiodic CSIreporting using the PUSCH of a serving cell c.

The aperiodic CSI reporting performed on the PUSCH supports wideband andsub-band frequency granularity.

The aperiodic CSI reporting performed on the PUSCH supports Type I andType II CSIs.

When decoding DCI format 0_1 activating a semi-persistent (SP) CSItrigger state is successful, the UE performs SP CSI reporting for thePUSCH.

DCI format 0_1 includes a CSI request field indicating the SP CSItrigger state to be activated or deactivated.

The SP CSI report for the PUSCH supports Type I and Type II CSIs withthe wideband and sub-band frequency granularity.

The PUSCH resource and the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the SPCSI reporting are semi-permanently allocated by the UL DCI.

The CSI reporting for the PUSCH may be multiplexed with UL data on thePUSCH.

Further, the CSI reporting for the PUSCH may be performed withoutmultiplexing with the UL data.

For Type I and Type II CSIs on the PUSCH, the CSI reporting includes twoparts (Part 1 and Part 2) as illustrated in FIG. 24.

Part 1 2410 is used for identifying the number of information bits ofPart 2 2420. The entirety of Part 1 is transmitted before Part 2.

-   For Type I CSI feedback, Part 1 contains an RI (if reported), a CRI    (if reported), and a CQI of a first codeword.

Part 2 includes a PMI and includes a CQI for a second codeword whenRI>4.

-   For Type II CSI feedback, Part 1 has a fixed payload size and    includes the RI, the CQI and an indication (NZBI) for the number of    non-zero wideband amplitude coefficients per layer for Type II CSI.    In Part 1, the RI, the CQI, and the NZBI are separately encoded.    Part 2 includes the PMI of Type II CSI. Parts 1 and 2 are encoded    separately.

Type II CSI report carried on PUSCH are calculated independently of allType II CSI reporting carried in PUCCH format 1, 3, or 4.

When a higher layer parameter reportQuantity is set to one of values‘cri-RSRP’ and ‘ssb-Index-RSRP’, the CSI feedback is constituted by asingle part.

For Type I and Type II CSI reporting configured for the PUCCH buttransmitted on the PUSCH, an encoding scheme follows an encoding schemeof the PUCCH.

When the CSI reporting includes two parts in the PUSCH and a CSI payloadto be reported has a smaller payload size provided in a PUSCH resourceallocated for CSI reporting, the UE may omit some of Part 2 CSI.Omission of Part 2 CSI is determined according to priority, and Priority0 is the highest priority, and the priority has the lowest priority.

When a UE is scheduled to transmit a transport block on a PUSCHmultiplexed with CSI reporting(s), part 2 CSI is omitted only when

$\left\lceil {\left( {O_{{CSI} - 2} + L_{{CSI} - 2}} \right) \cdot \beta_{offset}^{PUSCH} \cdot {\sum\limits_{l = 0}^{N_{{symb},{all}}^{PUSCH} - 1}\;{{M_{sc}^{UCI}(l)}\text{/}{\sum\limits_{r = 0}^{C_{{UL} - {SCH}} - 1}\; K_{r}}}}} \right\rceil$

is greater than

$\left\lceil {\alpha \cdot {\sum\limits_{l = 0}^{N_{{symb},{all}}^{PUSCH} - 1}\;{M_{SC}^{UCI}(l)}}} \right\rceil - Q_{ACK}^{\prime} - {Q_{{CSI} - 1}^{\prime}.}$

In this case, each parameter may be defined as follows.

-   O_(CSI-2): the number of bits of CSI part 2-   O_(CSI-1): the number of bits of CSI part 1-   L_(CSI-2): 11 when O_(CSI-2)≥360 and the number of CRC bits of CSI    part 2 if not-   β_(offset) ^(PUSCH)=β_(offset) ^(HARQ-ACK), β_(offset)    ^(PUSCH)=β_(offset) ^(CSI-part1), β_(offset) ^(PUSCH)=β_(offset)    ^(CSI-part2)-   N_(symb,all) ^(PUSCH): Total coefficients of OFDM symbols for PUSCH.-   M_(sc) ^(UCI)(l): the number of resource elements (l=0, 1, 2, . . .    , N_(symb,all) ^(PUSCH)−1) which may be used for the transmission of    UCI in an OFDM symbol 1-   C_(UL-SCH): the number of code blocks for an UL-SCH for PUSCH    transmission.-   K_(r): the size of an r-th code block of an UL-SCH for PUSCH    transmission.-   Q′_(CSI-1) may be calculated by Equation 24, and Q′_(ACK) may be    calculated by Equation 25.

$\begin{matrix}{Q_{{CSI} - 1}^{\prime} = {\min\left\{ {\left\lceil \frac{\left( {O_{{CSI} - 1} + L_{{CSI} - 1}} \right) \cdot \beta_{offset}^{PUSCH} \cdot {\sum\limits_{l = 0}^{N_{{symb},{all}}^{PUSCH} - 1}\;{M_{sc}^{UCI}(l)}}}{\sum\limits_{r = 0}^{C_{{UL} - {SCH}} - 1}\; K_{r}} \right\rceil,{\left\lceil {\alpha \cdot {\sum\limits_{l = 0}^{N_{{symb},{all}}^{PUSCH} - 1}\;{M_{sc}^{UCI}(l)}}} \right\rceil - Q_{ACK}^{\prime}}} \right\}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 24} \right\rbrack \\{Q_{ACK}^{\prime} = {\min\left\{ {\left\lceil \frac{\left( {O_{ACK} + L_{ACK}} \right) \cdot \beta_{offset}^{PUSCH}}{R \cdot Q_{m}} \right\rceil,\left\lceil {\alpha \cdot {\sum\limits_{l = l_{0}}^{N_{{symb},{all}}^{PUSCH} - 1}\;{M_{sc}^{UCI}(l)}}} \right\rceil} \right\}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 25} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

The part 2 CSI may be omitted for each level, and is omitted until

$\left\lceil {\left( {O_{{CSI} - 2} + L_{{CSI} - 2}} \right) \cdot \beta_{offset}^{PUSCH} \cdot {\sum\limits_{l = 0}^{N_{{symb},{all}}^{PUSCH} - 1}\;{{M_{sc}^{UCI}(l)}\text{/}{\sum\limits_{r = 0}^{C_{{UL} - {SCH}} - 1}\; K_{r}}}}} \right\rceil$

is equal to or smaller than

$\left\lceil {\alpha \cdot {\sum\limits_{l = 0}^{N_{{symb},{all}}^{PUSCH} - 1}\;{M_{SC}^{UCI}(l)}}} \right\rceil - Q_{ACK}^{\prime} - Q_{{CSI} - 1}^{\prime}$

starting from the lowest priority.

When Part 2 CSI is transmitted on the PUSCH without a transport block,bits having low priority may be omitted until the code rate of Part 2CSI becomes smaller than a critical code rate c_(T) smaller than 1.c_(T) may be calculated by Equation 26.

$\begin{matrix}{c_{T} = \frac{R}{\beta_{offset}^{{CSI}\text{-}{part}\; 2}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 26} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

β_(offset) ^(CSI-part2) means a CSI offconfigured value of Table 19.

R means a code rate signaled through DCI.

TABLE 19 I_(offset, 0) ^(CSI-1) or I_(offset, 1) ^(CSI-1) β_(offset)^(CSI-1) I_(offset, 0) ^(CSI-2) or I_(offset, 1) ^(CSI-2) β_(offset)^(CSI-2) 0 1.125 1 1.250 2 1.375 3 1.625 4 1.750 5 2.000 6 2.250 7 2.5008 2.875 9 3.125 10 3.500 11 4.000 12 5.000 13 6.250 14 8.000 15 10.00016 12.625 17 15.875 18 20.000 19 Reserved 20 Reserved 21 Reserved 22Reserved 23 Reserved 24 Reserved 25 Reserved 26 Reserved 27 Reserved 28Reserved 29 Reserved 30 Reserved

If a UE is configured an active semi-persistent CSI report configurationon a PUSCH, CSI reporting is deactivated whenever a downlink BWP or anuplink BWP is changed. Another activation command is necessary toactivate the semi-persistent CSI report.

Type II CSI based on the aforementioned linear combination (LC) for moreaccurate CSI feedback was introduced in order to improve MU-MIMOperformance in the New RAT. The Type II CSI increases the accuracy ofCSI, but has a problem in that a payload of the CSI is greatlyincreased. Accordingly, in order to solve such a problem, there areproposed codebook designs for reducing the size of a payload and almostpreventing the degradation of performance.

Time-domain compression

Frequency-domain compression

The two methods use a characteristic in that PMIs for each SB (or foreach PRB) have a correlation in a frequency domain. The time domaincompression, that is, the first method, is method of reducing a maximumoverhead by representing a correlation in a frequency axis as maximumdelay in the time domain and representing an SB PMI configuration as afunction of maximum delay of specific basis beams.

The frequency domain compression, that is, the second method, is amethod of reducing a maximum payload by projection or linear transformof specific bases with respect to PMIs for each SB(or for each PRB).

The present disclosure proposes a configuration for CSI reportingcontents, omission and a scheme for reducing overhead when a scheme forreducing overhead of the Type II codebook is used.

Time Domain Compression

As illustrated in FIG. 9, the New RAT supports multi-panelfunctionality, but in the present disclosure, a single panel is firstconsidered for convenience sake. However, the present disclosure is notlimited thereto, and it is evident that the present disclosure may alsobe applied to multiple panels in addition to a single panel.

First, a 2D discrete Fourier transform (DFT) beam to be applied to a 2Dantenna array within a single panel may be defined as in Equation 27. Inthis case, m1 and m2 are indices of a 1D-DFT codebook in 1^(st) and2^(nd) domains.

$\begin{matrix}{w_{m_{1},m_{2}} = \frac{v_{m_{1}} \otimes u_{m_{2}}}{\sqrt{N_{1}N_{2}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 27} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 27, each variable is defined as follows.

each of N₁ and N₂ means the number of antenna ports for each pole in the1^(st) and 2^(nd) dimensions in a panel.

o₁ and o₂ mean oversampling factors in the 1^(st) and 2^(nd) dimensions.

$v_{m_{1}} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu}{\exp\left( {j\frac{2\pi\; m_{1}}{o_{1}N_{1}}} \right)}\mspace{14mu}\ldots\mspace{14mu}{\exp\left( {j\frac{2\pi\;{m_{1}\left( {N_{1} - 1} \right)}}{o_{1}N_{1}}} \right)}} \right\rbrack^{T}$$u_{m_{2}} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu}{\exp\left( {j\frac{2\pi\; m_{2}}{o_{2}N_{2}}} \right)}\mspace{14mu}\ldots\mspace{14mu}{\exp\left( {j\frac{j\;\pi\;{m_{2}\left( {N_{2} - 1} \right)}}{o_{2}N_{2}}} \right)}} \right\rbrack^{T}$

Equation 27 indicates a case where port indexing is first performed inthe N₂ domain, and may also be extended and applied to a case where portof the N₁ domain is first indexed.

Frequency selectivity in the frequency axis is related to a multi-pathchannel response according to a multi-path. In general, if delayoccurring due to a multi-path is great, the probability that frequencyselectivity will occur is increased. Delay in the time axis isinterpreted as a phase change in the frequency axis. The phase change inthe frequency axis may be indicated as a function of the frequency.

For example, the phase change in the frequency axis may be representedas exp(−j2πkδ). k indicates an index (e.g., subcarrier index, subbandindex) corresponding to a corresponding frequency, and delta (δ) may bedefined as a coefficient indicative of a degree of a frequency phasechange.

W₁ is a block diagonal matrix as in Equation 28, and defined asB_(i)=[b_(i,1), b_(i,2), . . . , b_(i,L)](∈ C^(N) ¹ ^(N) ² ^(×L)).b_(i,1) (l=1, . . . , L) is a 2D/1D DFT beam defined as Equation 28. Lmay indicate the number of beams that are linearly combined, and thisvalue may be represented as L=2, 3, 4, for example.

The L value may be previously agreed between a base station and a UE, orthe base station may notify the UE of the L value through a higher layersignal (e.g., RRC or MAC CE). Alternatively, the UE may feed informationon the L value back to the base station.

$\begin{matrix}{W_{1} = \begin{bmatrix}B_{1} & 0 \\0 & B_{2}\end{bmatrix}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 28} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

FIG. 27 illustrates an example of an orthogonal beam set to which amethod proposed in the present disclosure may be applied.

Beams in which each block diagonal matrix B_(i) is configured may becalculated from an orthogonal basis as illustrated in FIG. 27. That is,an L beam may be selected from an N1N2-orthogonal basis configured with(N1N2-1) beams orthogonal to a given leading beam index (e.g.,corresponding to i11, i12 of a codebook) or a corresponding subset.

In the present disclosure, for convenience of description, B₁=B₂=B willbe first described. Elements that construct W₁ may include leading beamselection, combining beam selection (e.g., L-1 beam selection out ofN1N2-1 beams), power coefficient indicator, and a phase change value (δ)for each of the aforementioned beams. In this case, the elements ofB=[b₁, b₂, . . . , b_(L)](∈ C^(N) ¹ ^(N) ² ^(×L)) that constructs B arethe same as Equation 29.

B=[b ₁ e ^(−j2πkδ) ¹ ^(+ε) ¹ , p ₂ b ₂ e ^(−j2πkδ) ² ^(+ε) ² , . . . , p_(L) b _(L) e ^(−j2πkδ) ^(L) ^(+ε) ^(L) ](∈ C ^(N) ¹ ^(N) ² ^(×L))  [Equation 29]

In Equation 29, b₁ indicates a leading beam b₁(l=2, . . . , L) ,indicates beams combined with the leading beam, and P_(l) indicatesrelative beam power based on the leading beam.

In this case, a value, such as (e.g., P_(l)={1, √{square root over(0.5)}, √{square root over (0.25)}, 0}), may be previously set or basestation may notify a UE of the granularity of a power configured valuethrough a higher layer signal.

Alternatively, the UE may feed information on the granularity of a powerconfigured value back to the base station. The power information may bedifferent depending on a layer and/or polarization.

In Equation 29, a variable of the phase change value may be defined asin Equation 30.

$\begin{matrix}{\delta_{l} = \frac{\lambda_{l}}{v\;\eta}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 30} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 30, variables that construct δ₁ may be defined as follows.

The η value may be transmitted to a UE through a higher layer (radioresource control (RRC) or media access control control element (MAC CE))or a previously agreed value may be used according to a numerology.

Alternatively, in {128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096}, the smallest valuesatisfying η≥N_(cRB) ^(DL)N_(sc) ^(cRB) may be set as the η value. Inthis case, N_(cRB) ^(DL), N_(sc) ^(cRB) are the number of RBs configuredfor CSI reporting and the number of configured subcarriers per RB,respectively. N_(cRB) ^(DL)N_(sc) ^(cRB) is the number of subcarrierswithin a BW configured for CSI reporting.

Alternatively, a base station may set the size of a fast Fouriertransform (FFT) or a UE may additionally report the size of an FFT.

A value of υ is an oversampling value (of the FFT size), and may have aspecific integer value (e.g., 1, 2, 4 . . . ,) (may be a systemparameter not related to a specific beam). The value may beautomatically set depending on a numerology or a base station may setthe value for a UE.

λ_(l) is a value related to a phase change speed within a BW configuredper beam. For example, when λ_(l)=2, and l-th beam may mean that a phaseis changed by 4pi within a configured BW.

A value of λ_(l) may have a specific integer value (e.g., 1, 2, 4 . . .). A base station may set the λ_(l) value for a UE or the UE may feed,to the base station, back the λ_(l) value for each beam within a set ofthe λ_(l) value.

As one embodiment of a method of estimating the value of Equation 30, ifa channel represented as each subcarrier or RB is defined as H(k) ∈C^(N) ^(R) ^(×N) ^(T) , a UE may obtain values represented as respectivesubcarriers or RBs by applying W1, that is, a basis matrix for a linearcombination to H(k).

In this case, an Eigen vector of each channel may be calculated throughan SVD operation of H(k)=U_(k)Σ_(k)V_(k) ^(H). Each variable of H(k) maybe defined as in Equation 31.

U_(k) ∈ C^(N) ^(R) ^(×N) ^(T) ,   [Equation 31]

$\mspace{20mu}{{\sum_{k}{= {\left\lbrack {{\sum\limits^{\_}}_{k}0} \right\rbrack \in {C^{N_{\text{?}} \times N_{\text{?}}}\left( {{\sum\limits^{\_}}_{k}{\in C^{N_{\text{?}} \times N_{\text{?}}}}} \right)}}}},\mspace{20mu}{V_{k} = {\left\lbrack {v_{k\; 1},\ldots\mspace{14mu},v_{{kN}\text{?}}} \right\rbrack \in C^{N_{\text{?}} \times N_{\text{?}}}}}}$?indicates text missing or illegible when filed

In Equation 31, U and V are unitary matrices, and Σ _(k) is a diagonalmatrix in which a diagonal element is an Eigen value. In this case, achannel represented as a rank1 of a channel H_k is v_k1, and may berepresented as an Eigen vector (if the rank is R, an r-th Eigenvector(v_kr) may be used as an r-th layer).

Accordingly, a term corresponding to a phase per beam may be calculatedby applying a channel value to a basis for a beam combination by usingan equation, such as c_(k)=(W₁ ^(H)W₁)⁻¹W₁ ^(H)v_(k1). In this case,c_(k) is a value corresponding to a phase and amplitude per beam of ak-th channel, and may be defined as in Equation 32.

$\begin{matrix}{c_{k} = \begin{bmatrix}{p_{k,1}e^{j\;\theta_{k,1}}} \\{p_{k,2}e^{j\;\theta_{k,2}}} \\\vdots \\{p_{k,2}e^{i\;\theta_{k,{2L}}}}\end{bmatrix}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 32} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In the present embodiment, if the best beam is the first beam or it isassumed that the best beam has been rearranged to become the first orhave different power for each polarization, a polarization sequence maybe changed depending on the size of a leading beam. A sequence of such achanged beam may be recognized by a UE through 1 bit.

The leading beam may be relatively represented as in Equation 33.

$\begin{matrix}{c_{k} = \begin{bmatrix}1 \\{{\overset{\_}{p}}_{k,2}e^{j\;{\overset{\_}{\theta}}_{k,2}}} \\\vdots \\{{\overset{\_}{p}}_{k,{2L}}e^{j\;{\overset{\_}{\theta}}_{k,{2L}}}}\end{bmatrix}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 23} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 33, parameters may be represented as

${\overset{\_}{\theta}}_{k,j} = {{\theta_{k,j} - {\theta_{k,1}\mspace{14mu}{and}\mspace{14mu}{\overset{\_}{p}}_{k,j}}} = {\frac{p_{k,j}}{p_{k,1}}.}}$

Accordingly, Equation 33 may be represented as C=[c ₁, c ₂, . . . , c_(N) _(RB) ] ∈ C^(2L×N) ^(RB) , and may take an IFFT per l-th row (inthis case, if the number of samples of each row is small, it beunderstood that the remaining part is zero-padded and an IFFT is appliedthereto).

For example, if the size of an FFT is 64 and the number of RBs is 52, 12samples may be zero-padded, and an IFFT may be applied thereto.

N_(RB) may be represented as the number of RBs for convenience sake ofrepresentation, and may be defined as the number of samples used in thefrequency axis. That is, N_(RB) may also be defined as the number of(set or reported) SBs.

Through such a method, more precise delta values can be calculated byobtaining an oversampling effect. In the time domain, an index havingthe greatest peak becomes a maximum delay value in the time domain, andmay be calculated through Equation 34.

$\begin{matrix}{\delta_{l} = {\frac{\lambda_{l}}{v\;\eta} = \frac{{Index}_{peak}}{{FFT}_{size}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 34} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Furthermore, amplitude and a phase value of a complex scalar value of acorresponding time domain index may be calculated as p_(l), ε_(l) of anl-th beam, respectively. An δ_(l) value itself may be quantized for thefeedback of the calculated value or an FFT size (previously agreed or abase station configures the FFT size or a UE may report the FFT size)and an index may be reported.

Values of p_(l), ε_(l) may also be quantized and fed back as previouslyagreed (configured) granularity. Accordingly, such a method is a methodof independently feeding back the values in polarization.

With respect to a case where a structure of

${W_{1} = \begin{bmatrix}B_{1} & 0 \\0 & B_{2}\end{bmatrix}},$

that is, a beam group is different for each polarization, a method ofcalculating a delay parameter of 2L beams has been described. However,depending on a codebook configuration method to be described later, abeam combination is first calculated with respect to polarization on oneside, and a beam combination may be then calculated with respect topolarization on the other side through an operation, such as co-phase.

In Equation 29, the remaining parameters may be defined/configured asfollows. An k index is a value of an index corresponding to a frequencyused upon SB report, and this is set based on a given subcarrier or SB,and is additionally not reported.

A value of ε_(l) indicates a phase offconfigured value of an l-th beam.As in the example of

${ɛ_{l} = {{\left\{ {0,\frac{j\;\pi}{4},\frac{j\; 2\pi}{4},\frac{j\; 3\pi}{4}} \right\}\mspace{14mu}{or}\mspace{14mu} ɛ_{l}} = \left\{ {0,\frac{j\;\pi}{8},{\ldots\frac{j\; 7\pi}{8}}} \right\}}},$

the value of ε_(l) is a value set so that a phase offset per beam has avalue, such as QPSK or 8PSK. A UE may additionally feed, to a basestation, back the value of ε_(l) per beam.

Alternatively, if a phase offset is neglected and set as 0, feedbackoverhead can be significantly reduced. Such an effect is normalized as aphase and/or amplitude of a leading beam, and may be recognized that aphase offset is corrected or a method of reporting a differentialbetween the offset of a leading beam and the offset of a beam, such asthe second or the third, may be applied in order to reduce bits that arefed back.

For example, assuming that the offset of a leading beam is 3-bitfeedback, granularity smaller than a differential, for example, 1-bitfeedback may be performed.

FIG. 28 illustrates an example of a multi-path which may occur when datais transmitted to which a method proposed in the present disclosure maybe applied.

In the aforementioned method, a method of configuring a codebook if a 2LDFT beam corresponding to each basis matrix has one dominant delay hasbeen described. However, as illustrated in FIG. 28, in frequencyselectivity, the same beam may be received by a UE with different delaydue to a phenomenon, such as diffraction/refraction attributable to anobstacle.

If a beam is a dominant beam having strong received strength among basisbeams constructing B, there is a problem in that the degradation ofperformance occurs because a UE configures a codebook by using only someof power of a received beam when only one dominant delay is considered.Accordingly, the present disclosure proposes a method of configuring acodebook by considering most of power of a beam corresponding to eachbasis beam.

To this end, if a common method of configuring a codebook which is firstproposed is represented again, a corresponding method is the same asEquation 35.

$\begin{matrix}{{\begin{bmatrix}B_{1} & 0 \\0 & B_{2}\end{bmatrix} = {\begin{bmatrix}{b_{1,1},b_{1,2},\ldots\;,b_{i,L}} & 0 \\0 & {b_{2,1},b_{2,2},\ldots\;,b_{2,L}}\end{bmatrix} = {\left\lbrack {{\overset{\_}{b}}_{1},\ldots\;,{\overset{\_}{b}}_{2L}} \right\rbrack \in C^{2N_{1}N_{2} \times 2L}}}}\mspace{76mu}{{\overset{\_}{b}}_{i} = \left\{ {\begin{matrix}{\begin{bmatrix}b_{1,i} \\0\end{bmatrix}\mspace{20mu}} & {{{{{for}\mspace{14mu} i} = 1},\ldots\;,L}\mspace{50mu}} \\\begin{bmatrix}0 \\b_{2,{i - L}}\end{bmatrix} & {{{{for}\mspace{14mu} i} = {L + 1}},\ldots\;,{2L}}\end{matrix}\mspace{76mu}{where}} \right.}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 35} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In this case, a structure of a rank 1 codebook of a k-th subcarrier orRB index is the same as Equation 36.

$\begin{matrix}{W_{k}^{(1)} = {{\left\lbrack {{\overset{\_}{b}}_{1},\ldots\;,{\overset{\_}{b}}_{2L}} \right\rbrack c} = {\left\lbrack {{\overset{\_}{b}}_{1},\ldots\;,{\overset{\_}{b}}_{2L}} \right\rbrack\begin{bmatrix}{p_{1}e^{{{- j}\; 2\pi\; k\;\delta_{1}} + ɛ_{1}}} \\{p_{2}e^{{{- j}\; 2\pi\; k\;\delta_{2}} + ɛ_{2}}} \\\vdots \\{p_{2L}e^{{{- j}\; 2\pi\; k\;\delta_{2L}} + ɛ_{2L}}}\end{bmatrix}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 36} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Alternatively, if a relative size of a leading beam is applied, thestructure of the rank 1 codebook is the same as Equation 37.

$\begin{matrix}{W_{k}^{(1)} = {{\left\lbrack {{\overset{\_}{b}}_{1},\ldots\;,{\overset{\_}{b}}_{2L}} \right\rbrack c} = {\left\lbrack {{\overset{\_}{b}}_{1},\ldots\;,{\overset{\_}{b}}_{2L}} \right\rbrack\begin{bmatrix}1 \\{{\overset{\_}{p}}_{2}e^{{{- j}\; 2\pi\; k\;{\overset{\_}{\delta}}_{2}} + {\overset{\_}{ɛ}}_{2}}} \\\vdots \\{{\overset{\_}{p}}_{2L}e^{{{- j}\; 2\pi\; k\;{\overset{\_}{\delta}}_{2L}} + {\overset{\_}{ɛ}}_{2L}}}\end{bmatrix}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 37} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 37, p, δ, ε are parameters divided by a leading beamparameter. Such methods have been described by taking the case of therank 1 as an example. If rank>1, a codebook may be configured byindependently calculating the structure for each layer. This is for wellincorporating characteristics of a channel by using the codebook.

<Method 1: N strong beams including the same beam for different delaysare selected (N may be set regardless of 2L. That is, N may be set to besmaller than or greater than 2L)>

If Method 1 is used, the structure of a codebook is the same as Equation38.

$\begin{matrix}{W_{k}^{(1)} = {{\left\lbrack {{\overset{\_}{b}}_{1},\ldots\;,{\overset{\_}{b}}_{2L}} \right\rbrack{Sc}} = {\left\lbrack {{\overset{\_}{b}}_{1},\ldots\;,{\overset{\_}{b}}_{2L}} \right\rbrack{S\begin{bmatrix}{p_{1}e^{{{- j}\; 2\pi\; k\;\delta_{1}} + ɛ_{1}}} \\{p_{2}e^{{{- j}\; 2\pi\; k\;\delta_{2}} + ɛ_{2}}} \\\vdots \\{p_{N}e^{{{- j}\; 2\pi\; k\;\delta_{N}} + ɛ_{N}}}\end{bmatrix}}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 38} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In this case, in order to reduce a feedback bit value, a case wherenormalization is performed using a leading or best beam may be included.In Equation 38, S means a matrix for mapping 2L beams to N beams. Thatis, S may be represented as in Equation 39.

S=[e, _(s) ₁ , e _(s) ₂ , . . . , e _(s) _(N) ] ∈ C ^(2L×N)   [Equation39]

In Equation 39, e_(j) is a selection vector in which only a j-th elementis 1, and means an index of a beam preferred as an i-th sequence whenall delay per beam is considered as s_(i) ∈ {1, 2, . . . , 2L} (i=1, . .. , N).

For example, 64 IFFT has 64 delay taps per beam, and indicates an indexof a beam that is preferred an i-th sequence among a total of 2L*64(beam, delay) pairs. If L=2 and N=2, a 2-nd tap and 10-th tap of a l-thbeam are the best beams and calculated/selected by a UE, S is the sameas Equation 40, and may be calculated as

${\delta_{1} = \frac{2}{64}},{\delta_{2} = {\frac{10}{64}.}}$

$\begin{matrix}{S = \begin{bmatrix}1 & 1 \\0 & 0 \\0 & 0 \\0 & 0\end{bmatrix}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 40} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

(Method 1-1)

FIG. 29 illustrates an example of a signal in a time domain to which amethod proposed in the present disclosure may be applied.

Method 1 may become problematic because the size of feedback informationon the best N-beam selection is greater than values of L and N. That is,if the number of branches of (2L)^(N) has to be fed back, when thevalues of L and N become great, there is a problem in that the size ofinformation that needs to be fed back from a UE to a base station isexcessively increased.

Accordingly, in order to solve the problem, a method of selecting thenumber of W contiguous taps per beam or the number of taps selectedaccording to a specific rule and feeding the number back may be applied.Such a case may be effective when most of power is crowded near amaximum delay tap.

Alternatively, if an IFFT is greatly oversampled due to oversampling, itmay be advantageous to incorporate most of signal power.

FIG. 29 illustrates a time domain signal in which an IFFT has beenperformed on samples in the frequency domain. In FIG. 29, a dotted arrowindicates maximum delay. In this case, samples in the frequency domaincan be more accurately decoded by selecting samples for three tapsincluding both sides (i.e., W=3) of the maximum delay tap rather thanselecting only a sample corresponding to a tap having maximum delay.

In this case, if only one index corresponding to the best tap per beamis fed back,

$\delta_{l} = {\frac{\lambda_{l}}{v\;\eta} = \frac{{Index}_{peak}}{{FFT}_{size}}}$

for the remaining W-1 taps can be calculated. Values of p_(l), ε_(l)need to be separately fed back from a UE to a base station. Accordingly,the base station may configured, for the UE, information on the size ofW, that is, how many taps per beam will be fed back or according towhich rule W taps will be selected.

In the case of the number of Ws, the size of W may also be fed back sothat a UE is configured to measure a channel and to feed back a greaterW value when delay spread is great and feeds back a smaller W value whenthe delay spread is small. Such a method can effectively reduce fed backoverhead.

(Method 2)

With respect to K strong beams, a UE may feed W delay taps back to abase station. With respect to 2L-K beams, the UE may feed one maximumdelay tap back to the base station.

Method 2 is an effective method for properly incorporating the trade-offof fed back overhead and performance of a UE. Most of frequencyselectivity applies the principle that it is determined by a dominantspecific beam, and such a property is further compatible with mm wavehaving stronger straightness.

Other parameters other than the method of selecting K strong beams maybe calculated by the aforementioned method. The method of selecting Kstrong beams may be indicated by permutation. That is, when K=2, a totalnumber of cases correspond to the number of cases of 2L*(2L-1). A UE maynotify a base station of a strong beam by feeding correspondinginformation back to the base station.

Alternatively, if orthogonal basis matrices are arranged in order ofdominant beams, fed back information for indicating additional K beamsmay be omitted. A value of K (the K value is measured by a UE and may becalculated by measuring a correlation between a channel and beams thatconstructs a basis matrix or may be considered to be a dominant beamwhen a value of reported p_1 exceeds a specific value, for example, 0.5)may be additionally fed back to a base station or the K value may bepreviously agreed with the base station.

Alternatively, regardless of B₁=B₂, B₁≠B₂, a case where power is crowedin a specific polarization with respect to a specific channel may occur.If basis matrices are arranged for each polarization, a UE mayadditionally notify a base station which polarization (H slant orV-slant) ios dominant by using 1 bit in the best beam selection from thebasis matrix.

Frequency Domain Compression

In NR for Equation 36, a rank-1 PMI configured in a k-th frequency index(e.g., PRB, SB) for Type II CSI is the same as Equation 41.

$\begin{matrix}{W_{k}^{(1)} = {{W_{1}{\overset{\_}{c}}_{k}} = {{\left\lbrack {{\overset{\_}{b}}_{1}\mspace{14mu}\cdots\mspace{14mu}{\overset{\_}{b}}_{2L}} \right\rbrack\begin{bmatrix}c_{1,k} \\\vdots \\c_{{2L},k}\end{bmatrix}} = {\left\lbrack {{\overset{\_}{b}}_{1}\mspace{14mu}\cdots\mspace{14mu}{\overset{\_}{b}}_{2L}} \right\rbrack\begin{bmatrix}{p_{k,1}e^{j\;\theta_{k,1}}} \\{p_{k,2}e^{j\;\theta_{k,2}}} \\\vdots \\{p_{k,{2L}}e^{j\;\theta_{k,{2L}}}}\end{bmatrix}}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 41} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Equation 42 is obtained if the rank-1 PMIs of Equation 41 are stackedand represented with respect to all frequency indices.

W_(S)=W₁C=[b ₁ . . . b _(2L)][c ₁ . . . c _(N) _(RB) ]  [Equation 42]

Where C=[c ₁, c ₂, . . . , c _(N) _(RB) ] ∈ C^(2L×N) ^(RB)

In Equation 42, for convenience sake of representation, the size of afrequency index is indicated as the number of PRBs (N_(RB)) within aconfigured BWP, but may be represented as the number of configured SBsor the number of reported SBs according to circumstances.

If decomposition is performed using the number of PRBs as one basismatrix, Equation 43 is obtained.

W_(S)=W₁C≈W₁ CW_(F) ^(H)

In Equation 43, if C ∈ C^(2L×K, W) _(f) ∈ C^(N) ^(RB) ^(×K) and W_(F) isan orthogonal basis matrix, Equation 43 may be calculated as C=CW_(F).In CSI reporting of the existing Type II CSI, information on W₁ and acombination coefficient C (in this case, the size of C will be 2L-by-No)for each reported SB are reported, whereas frequency domain compressionrepresented as Equation 43 reports information on W₁, C, and information(e.g., index) on W_(F), thereby being capable of greatly reducing totaloverhead.

The optimized method of reducing overhead is determined by a K valuethat determines the dimension of C that reports a coefficient withoutany change, that is, by the number of projected orthogonal basismatrices, which becomes an element that determines the trade-off ofperformance and overhead. For example, when the K value becomes N_(RB),C=C becomes, and the existing Type II CSI report results in.

Hereinafter, a method for reporting CSI when the capacity of a resourceallocated for CSI reporting is smaller than the size of a payload of theCSI calculated by a UE in the Type II CSI is described.

<Proposal 1: when the capacity of a resource allocated for CSI reportingis smaller than the size of a payload of the CSI calculated by a UE, theentire CSI may be dropped or only Part 1 CSI is reported>

If CSI is reported using a time domain (TD) compression-based codebookor a frequency-domain (FD) compression-based codebook, when the capacity(or size) of a resource (e.g., a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH)or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH)) allocated for CSIreporting through higher layer signaling or DCI is smaller than apayload of the CSI to be reported, the entire CSI may be dropped and notreported or only some (e.g., Part 1 CSI) of the CSI may be reported to abase station.

Specifically, the UE may derive parameters for reporting the CSI bycalculating the parameters based on configuration informationtransmitted by the base station. Thereafter, when the capacity of aresource for CSI reporting allocated through DCI is smaller than thesize of a payload of the CSI including the derived parameters, the UEcannot report all of the derived parameters to the base station on theallocated resource.

In this case, the UE may not report the CSI to the base station bydropping the entire CSI or may omit some of the derived parameters andreport the CSI to the base station. For example, the UE may omit Part 2CSI among Part 1 CSI and Part 2 CSI and report only Part 1 CSI to thebase station.

Currently, in the case of NR MIMO, if an uplink resource for CSIfeedback is insufficient, some SB CSI (even or odd SB) may be omittedand reported. However, the concept of SB CSI may become ambiguous if CSIis reported using the aforementioned time domain or frequency domaincompression-based codebook.

For example, if CSI is reported using the time domain or frequencydomain compression method, whether calculated CSI is an SB or a WBcannot be clearly determined because the CSI is calculated and derivedusing a preferred or strong beam (or delay tap) without distinguishingbetween the SB and the WB.

That is, it is because, if an SB report is configured, reporting CSI isnot clearly distinguished for each SB, but CSI reporting is performedthrough a method of reporting the CSI to a base station based on arepresentative parameter for CSI calculation for each SB or byabbreviating a specific SB PMI into a smaller domain and decoding, bythe base station, the CSI again.

Accordingly, if the capacity of a resource configured for CSI reportingis smaller than a payload of CSI calculated and derived by a UE, the UEmay drop the entire CSI or may report only some of the CSI to a basestation.

<Proposal 1-1: when the capacity of a resource allocated for CSIreporting is smaller than the size of a payload of CSI calculated by aUE, the UE reports WB CSI although an SB CSI report is configured>

In the case of the case described in Proposal 1, a UE may calculate CSIas CSI for a WB and report the CSI although the UE is configured toreport SB CSI (e.g., if the UE is configured to report an SB PMI and/orSB CQI) from a base station.

Specifically, although the UE is configured to reports SB CSI by thebase station, when the capacity of a resource configured for CSIreporting is smaller than the size of a payload of CSI to be reported,the UE operates as a WB CSI report and report the WB CSI to the basestation.

In this case, the WB CSI may include at least one of a CRI, an RI, a WBPMI or a WB CQI. The WB PMI is a PMI that represents a channel of aconfigured report band, and includes a full codebook form of the Type IIcodebook, that is, a form composed of WB Wi and WB W2.

Furthermore, in the case of Part 1 CSI, since the size of a payload isfixed, if a UE is configured with an SB report, an SB CQI within thepart 1 needs to be calculated and reported based on a time domain orfrequency domain method or an SB PMI calculated based on the Type IICSI.

In this case, since a base station may be ambiguous about whether CSIreported by a UE is SB CSI or WB CSI, the CSI may include, in Part 1CSI, a 1-bit indicator (e.g., 1 bit WB/SB reporting indicator) or flagindicating whether the CSI reported by the UE is SB CSI or WB CSI.

Alternatively, a CQI field may be used as an implicit method. If a UE isconfigured to report an SB CQI, the capacity of a resource configuredfor CSI reporting may be smaller than a payload of CSI to be reported.

In this case, the UE reports WB PMI (in this case, a WB PMI means a PMIconfigured with WB W₁ and/or WB W₂) without calculating an SB PMI, andmay report a corresponding WB CQI. In this case, the UE may report an SBCQI field in which all values are the same specific value (e.g., index 1or 2 or 3) for implicit signaling indicating whether reported Part2 CSIis a WB or an SB. The reason for this is that the SB CQI is given as a2-bit differential with a 4-bit WB CQI. A case where the entirereporting SB CQI indicates the same index includes only a case where anSB CQI index is 0. In this case, CQI values of all SBs are the same.

However, if all SB CQI indices indicate other values not 0, a basestation recognizes this as an error case. The base station may determinewhether CSI reported in Part 2 CSI is a WB or an SB by checking the CQIfield of Part 1 CSI.

In the case of such a method, there is an advantage in that the existingfield can be used without any change without increasing a separate fieldwithin Part 1 CSI. The implicit signaling may also be used to providenotification of the size of a payload of Part 2 CSI in addition to aWB/SB CSI indicator use.

For example, with respect to a subband indices s, a 2-bit subbanddifferential CQI may be defined as follows.

Sub-band Offset level(s)=sub-band CQI index(s)−wideband CQI index.

An offset level of 2-bit subband differential CQI values are the same asTable 20.

TABLE 20 Sub-band differential CQI value Offset level 0 0 1 1 2 ≥2   3≤−1  

<Proposal 1-2: when the capacity of a resource allocated for CSIreporting is smaller than the size of a payload of CSI calculated by aUE, the UE may omit the CSI according to a specific rule>

A UE may omit parameter values of CSI according to a specific rule whenthe capacity of a resource allocated by a base station is smaller than acalculated size of a payload of CSI, that is, the situation of Proposal1, in the report of the CSI using the time domain or frequency domaincompression-based codebook.

That is, since the omission rule of CSI not using the time domain orfrequency domain compression-based codebook cannot be applied to thereport of CSI using the time domain or frequency domaincompression-based codebook without any change, CSI may be omitted untilthe size of a payload of CSI is equal to or smaller than the capacity ofan allocated resource according to an omission rule based on newpriority, such as Table 21.

TABLE 21 Priority 0: Part 2 wideband CSI for CSI reports 1 to N_(Rep)Priority 1: Part 2 subband CSI for CSI report 1 Priority 2: Part 2subband CSI for CSI report 2 . . . Priority N_(Rep) + 1: Part 2 subbandCSI for CSI report N_(Rep)

In this case, the part 2 WB CSI and the part 2 SB CSI may include thefollowing parameters.

In the case of the time domain compression,

WB CSI:

Linear combining basis: {bi}

Strongest beam index for selected basis per layer

WB amplitude per layer

Layer indicator

SB CSI:

Delay parameter per layer: {δ_(i)}

Phase offset parameter per layer: {ε_(i)}

In the case of the frequency domain compression,

WB CSI:

Linear combining basis: {bi}

Strongest beam index for selected basis per layer

WB amplitude per layer

Layer indicator

SB CSI:

Compressed coefficient matrix C ∈ C^(2L×K)

May include SB amplitude, i.e., non-uniform amplitude of eachcoefficients in the matrix C ∈ C^(2L×K)

Index for Frequency domain projection basis W_(F) ∈ C^(N) ^(RB) ^(×K)

Alternatively, the part 2 WB CSI and the part 2 SB CSI may include thefollowing parameters.

WB CSI:

Linear combining basis: {bi} for W₁

Strongest beam index for selected basis per layer and its correspondingamplitude

WB amplitude per layer

Layer indicator

SB CSI:

Non-zero compressed coefficients matrix C ∈ C^(2L×K): amplitude andphase

Information of non-zero coefficients in C ∈ C^(2L×K) (e.g., bitmap)

Information for Frequency domain projection basis W_(F) ∈ C^(N) ^(RB)^(×K)

Alternatively, the part 2 WB CSI and the part 2 SB CSI may include thefollowing parameters.

WB CSI:

Linear combining basis: {bi} for W₁

Strongest beam index for selected basis per layer and its correspondingamplitude

WB amplitude per layer

Layer indicator

Information of non-zero coefficients in C ∈ C^(2L×K) (e.g., bitmap)

Information for Frequency domain projection basis W_(F) 531 C^(N) ^(RB)^(×K)

SB CSI:

Non-zero compressed coefficients matrix C ∈ C^(2L×K): amplitude andphase

Some elements that construct CSI may not be included. Furthermore, forconvenience sake of description, WB CSI and SB CSI are denoted, but maybe differently named because the term of the SB may be ambiguous. Forexample, CSI 1=WB CSI and CSI 2=SB CSI may result in. CSI1 have CSIpriority over CSI2. That is, in the CSI omission situation as in theexample, CSI 1 may be given priority.

<Proposal 1-3: when the capacity of a resource allocated for CSIreporting is smaller than the size of a payload of CSI calculated by aUE, the UE can further compress the CSI by reducing a value of acodebook parameter for configuring a time domain or frequency domaincompression-based codebook in a value or set of values configured basedon UE capability, according to a specific rule>

Specifically, the UE may derive CSI by calculating the CSI by using theaforementioned time domain or frequency domain compression-basedcodebook configuration, based on a parameter included in configurationinformation transmitted by a base station.

When the size of a payload of the derived CSI is greater than thecapacity of a resource allocated for CSI reporting for the UE, the UEmay reduce a value of a codebook parameter for configuring a codebook ina value or set of values configured based on the UE capability,according to a specific rule, and may report the CSI to the base stationby compressing (or omitting) the CSI.

That is, when the capacity of a resource configured for CSI reporting issmaller than a payload calculated based on a plurality of configuredcodebook parameters, the UE may calculate and/or determine a pluralityof codebook parameters that is the most optimized and satisfy thecapacity, and may report the CSI.

In this case, the codebook parameter may include at least one of a valuefor determining a dimension of a compressed coefficient matrix, thenumber of combination coefficients for calculating a PMI, the size of afast Fourier transform (FFT), oversampling information, or the number ofbeams selected among a plurality of beams for calculating the PMI.

In the case of Proposal 1-3, CSI compression is performed from asequence having high priority to a sequence having low priority (e.g., asequence having actual high priority) in Table 22. Accordingly, thefinal parameter value at which the size of a payload of calculated CSIis smaller than or equal to the capacity of a resource (e.g., PUSCH orPUCCH) configured by a base station may be determined for CSI reporting.CSI compression may be performed using the determined parameter value.

TABLE 22 Priority 0: Part 2 wideband CSI for CSI reports 1 to N_(Rep)Priority 1: Part 2 subband CSI based on K = 1 for CSI report 1 Priority2: Part 2 subband CSI based on K = 2 for CSI report 1 . . . Priority K₁:Part 2 subband CSI based on K = K₁ for CSI report 1 . . .${Priority}\mspace{20mu}{\sum\limits_{m = 1}^{N_{Rep}}K_{m}}$   Part 2subband CSI based on K = 1 for CSI report N_(Rep)

In Table 22, K_(i) is a K value set in CSI reporting i, which may be setas a maximum value or a set of K values configured by a base stationbased on the capability of a UE reported by the UE or as a previouslyagreed value.

For example, when an allocated resource is not smaller than the size ofa payload of calculated CSI, that is, if additional compression is notperformed, the K value may be NsB.

Specifically, in Part 2 CSI, if uplink control information (UCI) istransmitted along with data, that is, if a transport block is scheduledto be transmitted on a PUSCH multiplexed with CSI reporting, some of CSImay be sequentially compressed (or omitted) based on priority until thefollowing rule is satisfied.

That is, Part 2 CSI may be omitted for each level starting from thelowest priority level (highest priority value) until

$\left\lceil {\left( {O_{{CSI} - 2} + L_{{CSI} - 2}} \right) \cdot \beta_{offset}^{PUSCH} \cdot {\sum\limits_{l = 1}^{N_{{symb},{all}}^{PUSCH} - 1}\;{{M_{sc}^{UCI}(l)}\text{/}{\sum\limits_{r = 0}^{C_{{UL} - {SCH}} - 1}\; K_{r}}}}} \right\rceil$

is equal to or smaller than

$\left\lceil {\alpha \cdot {\sum\limits_{l = 1}^{N_{{symb},{all}}^{PUSCH} - 1}\;{M_{sc}^{UCI}(l)}}} \right\rceil - Q_{ACK}^{\prime} - {Q_{{CSI} - 1}^{\prime}.}$

Alternatively, if part 2 CSI is transmitted on a PUSCH without anytransport block, bits having low priority may be omitted until part 2CSI becomes smaller than a critical code rate c_(T) having a code ratesmaller than 1.

In this case, c_(T) may be calculated by Equation 44.

$\begin{matrix}{c_{T} = \frac{R}{\beta_{offset}^{{CSI}\text{-}{part}\; 2}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 44} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

β_(offset) ^(CSI-part2) means a CSI offset configured value in Table 19.

R means a code rate scheduled through DCI.

Proposal 1-3 is described by taking the frequency domaincompression-based codebook configuration as an example, but the presentembodiment is not limited thereto and may also be applied to the timedomain compression-based codebook configuration.

In this case, the K value may be changed into FFT associated information(size or oversampling) or the number of taps and applied. In addition,regardless of a compression method, a value of the number of linearcombination beams L which may be all applied may be applied.

As another example of Proposal 1-3, a parameter and a fall backparameter (default value) for compression may be set. That is, inProposal 1-3, if a value of K is set as a first specific value (e.g., 5)through a higher layer parameter and a fall back value is set as asecond specific value (e.g., 2), when the capacity of a resourceconfigured for CSI reporting is smaller than the size of a payload ofCSI calculated using the K value as 5, a UE may calculate CSI by usingthe K value as 2 and report the CSI.

If CSI calculated using the K value as 2 does not satisfy the capacityof a resource, the method of Proposal 1 or 1-1 may be applied.

That is, a UE may receive, from a base station, plurality of parametervalues including the fall back value for each of codebook configurationparameters for configuring a codebook, may calculate CSI again byapplying the fall back value when the CSI calculated by the receivedparameter is greater than the resource allocated for CSI reporting, andmay report the CSI on the allocated resource.

However, if CSI calculated by applying the fall back value is alsogreater than the allocated resource, the UE may drop the entirecalculated CSI or drop only some of the CSI, and may report the CSI.

As another example of the present embodiment, a configuration rule forreducing parameter set or a parameter for a codebook parameter forcompression may be defined.

For example, CSI is calculated not by sequentially reducing a value of Kfrom K=5 in order of K=4, K=3, K=2, K=1, but, CSI may be calculated bysetting K={5, 3, 2} and applying a value of K in order of K=5, K=3, K=2,the best K value satisfying the capacity of a configured resource may bederived.

As another example, a configured value and a step size for the K valuemay be considered. For example, if K=5 and the step size is 2, CSI maybe reported by reducing parameters for K=5, K=3, K=1 and deriving thebest value, or a method of using a set composed of odd numbers or evennumbers smaller than a configured K value may also be considered.

A conventional operation associated with Proposal 1 is a method ofcalculating specific reported CSI and omitting the report of a specificCSI if the capability of a resource configured for CSI reporting is notsatisfied. In contrast, Proposal 1-3 may be applied to solve a problemin that the conventional operation is not applied without any change.

In this case, the selection of a basic and/or coefficient subset for afirst layer may be as follows.

Size-K₀ subset design: may be selected among the following alternatives.

Alt1. Unrestricted subset (size=2LM)

Alt2. Polarization-common subset (size=LM)

Alt3. Restricted subset (a specific beam subset and FD based, size=2L+M)

a value of K₀ may be calculated by Equation 45.

K ₀ =┌β×2LM┐ where β ∈ {⅛, ¼, ½, ¾}  [Equation 45]

UCI is configured with two parts.

Information related to the number of non-zero coefficients is includedin a UCI part 1 and reported. The payload of the UCI part 1 isidentically maintained with respect to other RI values.

A bitmap is used to indicate non-zero coefficient indices.

With respect to a value of L, {2,4} is supported for L, and two valuesare supported for M. In this case, M may be selected among alternativesof Equation 46.

$\begin{matrix}{{{{Alt}\; 1.\mspace{14mu} M} = \left\lceil {p \times \frac{N_{3}}{R}} \right\rceil}{{{Alt}\; 2.\mspace{14mu} M} = \left\lceil {p \times N_{3}} \right\rceil}{{{where}\mspace{14mu} p} \in \left\{ {\frac{1}{4},\frac{1}{2}} \right\}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 46} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Proposal 1-3, the K value may be substituted with a p value. InProposal 1-3, an omission (or compression) operation that graduallyreduces a parameter(p, beta and/or R) for controlling the payload of thetime domain compression-based codebook or frequency domain-basedcompression codebook to be smaller than a configured value to fit theresource allocated for PUSCH transmission may be performed .

That is, when the size of a payload of calculated CSI is greater than anallocated resource, a UE can adjust the size of a payload of the CSI tobe equal to or smaller than the capacity of the allocated resource byomitting (or compressing or reducing) a payload of part 2 CSI accordingto a specific rule based on a value of a parameter K₀ determined basedon a specific value (beta).

For example, the size of a payload of part 2 CSI may be reduced by ½ ofa determined K₀ according to specific value or parameters included inPart 2 CSI may be dropped (or omitted).

Such a method may be applied as reducing p and/or R. In this case, a UEmay transmit Part 1 CSI to a base station by including informationrelated to whether which parameter among configured parameters has beenchanged (or decreased) to Part 1 CSI.

<Proposal 2: when CSI is reported using the time domain or frequencydomain compression-based codebook, part 1 CSI among Part 1 CSI and part2 CSI that construct CSI includes specific information>

Specifically, Part 1 CSI constituting CSI may be composed of parametersthat determine the size of part 2 CSI. That is, Part 1 CSI may be usedto recognize the size of Part 2 CSI. Accordingly, fields constructingPart 1 CSI may include some or all of the following parameters accordingto the time domain and/or frequency domain-based codebook configurationmethod in the existing Type II CSI configuration method.

This is effective if a base station designates a codebook parameter setthrough higher layer signaling (e.g., RRC or MAC CE) or dynamicsignaling (e.g., DCI). A UE may report, to the base station, the mostproper value through CSI calculation within a configured codebookparameter set.

In the case of a field including an indicator (An indication of thenumber of non-zero wideband amplitude coefficients per layer) indicatingthe number of non-zero wideband amplification coefficients per layerwithin Part 1 CSI, in the time domain compression, when WB beamamplitude is 0, a delay parameter per layer {δ_(i)} and/or a phaseoffset parameter per layer {ε_(i)} corresponding to a corresponding beammay be omitted.

Part 1 CSI of TD-Compression:

CRI

RI

CQI

An indication of the number of non-zero wideband amplitude coefficientsper layer

Size of FFT or oversampling factor for FFT

# of taps in time domain sample (size of W)

Part 1 CSI of FD-Compression:

CRI

RI

CQI

An indication of the number of non-zero wideband amplitude coefficientsper layer

K value: # of columns for W_(F) ∈ C^(N) ^(RB) ^(×K)

or

Another embodiment of Part 1 CSI of FD-Compression:

CRI

RI

CQI

An indication of the number of non-zero wideband amplitude coefficientsper layer

K value: # of columns for W_(F) ∈ C^(N) ^(RB) ^(×K)

# of non-zero coefficients in C ∈ C^(2L×K) per layer

Furthermore, in the frequency domain compression, a reported payload canbe reduced because the number of rows of a compression coefficientmatrix C ∈ C^(2L×K) is reduced.

However, all combined beams may have amplitude of 0 or more depending ona codebook method configured (in the case of TD). In this case, a fieldincluding an indicator indicating the number of non-zero widebandamplification coefficients per layer may be omitted.

In such a method, the K value may be previously set between a UE and abase station or may be agreed as a specific value and omitted. The fieldincluding the indicator indicating the number of non-zero widebandamplification coefficients per layer may also be omitted.

As a method of more specifically providing notification of # of non-zerocoefficients in C ∈ C^(2L×K) per layer, a UE may provide notification ofthe locations of the non-zero coefficients by including and reporting abitmap of 2LK in Part 1 CSI, or may notify a base station that thecoefficient in a specific row or column of C ∈ C^(2L×K) is non-zero byusing a bitmap of 2L or K in order to prevent a corresponding payloadfrom increasing.

Alternatively, a UE may notify a base station that an intersection orunion of rows and columns indicated as a bitmap of bits of L+K iscomposed of non-zero coefficients. Since the bitmap-based method maybecome very great by values of L and K, only # of non-zero coefficientsin C ∈ C^(2L×K) per layer may be included in Part 1 CSI and reported,and the location of each coefficient may be included in Part 2 CSI andreported to the base station.

Among quantization methods of C ∈ C^(2L×K) if WB amplitude and SBamplitude are differently applied, when a beam having WB amplitude of 0is present, all coefficients corresponding to a specific column of C ∈C^(2L×K) corresponding to the beam may not be included in a Part 2 CSIreport.

For example, if WB amplitude of a second beam among 1˜2L beams is 0,coefficients constructing the entire second column of C ∈ C^(2L×K) notreported.

<Proposal 2-1: the information related to codebook parameters describedin Proposal 2 may be configured and applied through at least one of RRC,MAC CE or DCI so that uplink resource management of a base station canbe effectively performed>

If the time domain compression-based or frequency axis compression-basedcodebook proposed in the present disclosure is configured, a basestation can efficiently perform the management of an uplink resource byadaptively adjusting important parameters for the trade-off ofperformance and overhead, instead of fixing FFT-related information(size or oversampling), coefficients of taps or the K value, that is,the parameters.

As an example of the configuration method, a parameter set, such asFFT-related information (size or oversampling), the number of taps orthe K value, may be set through RRC, and parameters may be dynamicallyindicated through DCI (RRC+DCI Method).

For example, the K value may be set as {2, 3, 4} (based on a UEcapability) through RRC, and may indicate a specific value of valuesthrough DCI. Or a great set may be set through RRC through three steps.A subset may be indicated through a MAC-CE, and a value within theindicated subset may be indicated through DCI (method using RRC, MAC CEand DCI).

If the parameters p, beta and R are used, a specific parameter may begiven priority over other parameters. For example, assuming that beta isgiven priority over a p value, the alphabet of a p value may bedetermined by a beta value. This is for effectively processing overheadand performance. For example, when a value may be beta={1/4, 1/2} andbeta=1/4, p={1/4, 1/2} is determined. When beta=1/2, p={1/8, 1/2} may bedetermined.

A configuration of Part 1 CSI of a conventional operation associatedwith Proposal 2 may include a CRI, an RI, a CQI or non-zero widebandamplitude each layer.

However, the TD or FD-based scheme is an alternative for solving aproblem in that a conventional operation is not applied without anychange because a parameter that determines a Part 2 CSI payload can beintroduced.

<Proposal 3: in the frequency domain compression method, a frequencydomain projection basis W_(F) may be calculated by an oversampling-basedapproach method or an under sampling-based approach method.

Specifically, the oversampling-based approach method is for maximizingperformance of compression and is an approach method for implementationconvenience of a UE, such as a DFT projection or FFT operation of a UE.

More specifically, Equation 43 to which the Proposal 3 is applied isdescribed again. C=[c ₁, c ₂, . . . , c _(N) _(RB) ] ∈ C^(2L×N) ^(RB) isthe size or N_(RB) or N_(SB) of a compressed coefficient matrix.Accordingly, an example of a method capable of most easily derivingW_(F) is a method of configuring an orthogonal basis matrix (e.g., DFTmatrix) of N_(RB)×N_(RB) (N_(SB)×N_(SB) according to circumstance) andselecting a row based on a K value.

In this case, if the range of the number of SBs supported in NR is from1 to 18 and weak RB level compression is supported, the range becomes 1RBs to 275 RBs and thus the size of a basis to be applied becomes veryvarious. Accordingly, if all situations need to be implemented, there isa problem in that the complexity of a UE is greatly increased.

Furthermore, in order to give flexibility, if the basis is configured bymultiplying a value of simple NRB or No by an oversampling value, thereis a problem in that K orthogonal columns are selected and a basis sizeaccording to an oversampling value is diversified. This may alsoincrease UE implementation complexity. This is as follows.

W_(F) is configured by selecting a specific number of columns K in anorthogonal basis composed of an N-by-N matrix or selected and configuredby a UE in a specific pattern. In this case, a value of N is set as aminimum value of an exponent of 2 greater than N_(RB) or N_(SB).

For example, when N_(RB) is 52, the value of N is set as N=64. WhenN_(SB) is 10, the value of N is set as N=16. When N_(RB) is 52 and N=64is set, W_(F) ∈ C^(64×K) is obtained. A UE calculates compressioncoefficient matrices C as C=[C 0]W_(F) and reports it to a base station.

In this case, C=[c ₁, c ₂, . . . , c _(N) _(RB) ] ∈ C^(2L×N) ^(RB) , 0 ∈C^(2L×(N−N) ^(RB) ⁾ may be configured. In this case, a portion where acoefficient value is present may be used without any change, and theremaining part may be padded as 0 and projected onto a basis matrix. Inthis case, the base station may calculate [C 0]≈CW _(F) ^(H) usinginformation of reported C and W_(F).

A value for a portion corresponding to an (N−N_(RB)) column from the endin CW _(F) ^(H), that is, 0 ∈ C^(2L×(N−N) ^(RB) ⁾, may be neglected by abase station. The final reported PMI may be calculated. An advantage ofa base configuration using the method, as described above, facilitatesan implementation of a UE because the size of a basis matrix composed ofan exponent of 2 is used. Furthermore, a value of N is greater than thenumber of actually transmitted SBs or PRBs. Accordingly, there is anadvantage in that performance of compression can be increased becausethe granularity of a basis is increased due to an effect of the basis.

In the proposal, the value of N is limited to a minimum value of anexponent of 2 greater than N_(RB) or N_(SB), but a base station may setinformation on the value for a UE through a higher layer (e.g., RRC, MACCE) or dynamic signaling (e.g., DCI) or a specific value may be agreedand used.

In under sampling, W_(F) is configured by selecting a specific number ofcolumns K in an orthogonal basis composed of an N-by-N matrix or by a UEin a specific pattern. In this case, the value of N may be composed of amaximum value of an exponent of 2 smaller than N_(RB) or N_(SB).

For example, when NRB is 52, N=32 is configured. When N_(SB) is 10, N=8is configured. A UE may select N columns in a predetermined pattern orbased on the indication of a base station or the selection of the UE (inthis case, additional information about which SB or RB has been selectedis necessary) in C=[c ₁, c ₂, . . . , c _(N) _(RB) ] ∈ C^(2L×N) ^(RB) ,that is, a target of compression, and may report the N columns to a basestation by performing FD-Compression.

The base station reconfigures C based on the reported information (C,W_(F)). In this case, a coefficient for an omitted column may beestimated through the interpolation of the reconfigured C matrix or anextrapolation method.

Advantages of the method include that the report of a matrix index canbe simplified because the dimension of W_(F) is reduced and thatoverhead is reduced because smaller K is used as N becomes smaller.Assuming that the same K is used, N<N_(RB) (or N<N_(SB)). There is anadvantage in that the accuracy of reported information is increased as adifference with a K value is reduced.

An extrapolation method in the under sampling method may be as follows.

A UE calculates information of C, W_(F) with respect to {tilde over(C)}=[c ₁, c ₂, . . . , c _(N)], and reports the information to a basestation. The base station decodes {tilde over (C)}=[c ₁, c ₂, . . . , c_(N)] based on the information, calculates a value of └c _(N+1), c_(N+2), . . . , c _(N) _(RB) ┘ through extrapolation, and obtains SB CSIof the UE.

The interpolation method is similar to the aforementioned extrapolationmethod, and is different from the aforementioned extrapolation method ina method of selecting N rows with respect to the C matrix (e.g., aconfiguration using a method of first selecting an even column and thenselecting an odd column, that is, when N_(RB)=10, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 1, 3, 5columns may be selected) and information on a not-reported (N_(RB)-N)column is reconfigured.

If the dimension of W_(F), that is, a basis matrix used to abbreviate afrequency domain including Proposal 3, is set as N-by-K, the number ofcolumns K is a parameter affecting a compression capability, and may beset through a higher layer signal or dynamic signal, such as RRC. Inthis case, the K columns are selected among N vectors or among N*Ocolumns in the case of oversampling.

In this case, O is an oversampling factor, and may be previously agreedor a base station may configure O for a UE through a higher layer ordynamic signaling or the UE may recommend/report O to the base station.For convenience of description, a method of determining K vectors in N*Ooversampled DFT vectors may be applied.

In the case of an oversampled basis matrix (e.g., DFT), O N orthogonalgroups are present. A UE may first select an orthogonal beam set

$\begin{pmatrix}O \\1\end{pmatrix}\quad$

instead of increasing the complexity of the UE through joint search, andthen may select K vectors

$\begin{pmatrix}N \\K\end{pmatrix}\quad$

in a set of N orthogonal vectors.

Alternatively, in the method, the value may be greatly increased as Nand K are increased. In order to solve this problem, to use a specificpattern for each orthogonal beam set may be considered. To report acorresponding beam group index may be considered.

For example, in the case of N=4, O=2, {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}, {0, 2,4, 6} are orthogonal to each other, and {1, 3, 5, 7} are orthogonal. Inthis case, since K=2, a pattern using contiguous K, for example has anadvantage a 2-bit report is made possible because the index of acorresponding beam group is composed of 0:{0,2},1 :{1,3}, 2:{4,6},3:{5,7}. In the case of processing using the existing method,

$\begin{pmatrix}2 \\1\end{pmatrix} + \begin{pmatrix}4 \\2\end{pmatrix}$

requires 4 bits, that is, 1 bit+3 bits. In the case of the method, thesame column may be redundantly selected according to circumstances. Thatis, although K=5 is configured, the best K=3 may be obtained. In orderfor a base station to understand such an operation of a UE, the UE mayinclude, in Part 1 CSI, information on how CSI was calculated usingwhich K value and report the information as in Proposal 2.

In Proposal 3, in general, a DFT basis vector used to configure aconventional W1 matrix is set identically with the number of set Txantenna ports and applied. In such a case, the proposal is for solving aproblem in that a UE has to implements the method in variousconfigurations.

<Proposal 3-1>

W_(F) may be composed of an oversampled basis matrix (e.g., DFT, IDFT,DCT). The length of the basis N₃ is composed of the smallest number froma set {32, 64, 128, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096} such that

$N_{3} > {\frac{N_{RB}}{X}.}$

N_(RB) is the number of RBs set for CSI reporting within a BWP or aspecific BW. X is an integer of {1, 2, 4, 8, 16 . . . }.

<Proposal 4: when a subband CQI is reported, a UE may report a subbandCQI to a base station through frequency domain compression >

Specifically, an SB CQI is composed of a 2-bit index (integer value, 0,1, 2, 3). Likewise an SB PMI, an SB CQI value has a correlation. A UEmay compress a CQI by identically using W_(F) used in a PMI report, andmay report the CQI to a base station.

In this case, additional feedback overhead does not occur because thesame W_(F) index is identically used, and a report for 1-by-K compressedcoefficients is necessary. However, unlike a PMI, an SB CQI is set as aninteger not a negative number. If W_(F) is a column matrix, anabbreviated value has a very good possibility that it will be a complexvalue. Accordingly, in this case, an integer orthogonal matrix, such asa Hardamard matrix, may be used as a basis matrix.

Equations 44 to 47 are examples of 8-by-8, 12-by-12, 16-by-16, 20-by-20Hardamard matrices, respectively. The method may be used by beingcombined with Proposal 3 in order to satisfy various SB sizes.

$\begin{matrix}{\mspace{76mu}{{{W_{0} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1} \right\rbrack},\mspace{76mu}{W_{1} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack}}\mspace{76mu}{{W_{2} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},\mspace{76mu}{W_{3} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},\mspace{76mu}{W_{4} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},\mspace{76mu}{W_{5} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 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1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{4} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{5} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{6} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{7} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{8} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{9} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{10} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{11} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{12} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{13} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{14} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{15} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - \mspace{14mu}{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 46} \right\rbrack \\{{W_{0} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{1} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{11mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{2} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{3} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{11mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{4} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{5} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{6} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} -} \right\rbrack},{W_{7} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{8} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{9} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{10} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{11mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{11} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{12} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{13} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{14} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{11mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{15} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{16} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{17} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}} \right\rbrack},{W_{18} = \left\lbrack {1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},{W_{19} = \left\lbrack {{1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - {1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1\mspace{14mu} 1}\mspace{14mu} - 1\mspace{14mu} - 1} \right\rbrack},} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 47} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Proposal 4 is a method for compressing and transmitting a CQI composedof only integer values in addition to a PMI. The method has an effect inthat the size of a payload of CSI can be reduced because a UE cancompress a CQI in addition to a PMI by using the method.

Among all 2L beams, an M coefficient is reported with respect to eachbeam, and each parameter is as follows.

W _(f)=[f _(k) ₀ f _(k) ₁ . . . f _(k) _(M−1) ]

{tilde over (W)}₂ may be composed of K=2LM linear combinationcoefficients.

M values of all 2L beams are set in a higher layer. If CSI is reported,M base vectors may be directly selected.

Alternatively, the M values are selected in common with respect to allthe 2L beams, but only a lower set of coefficients of an K_0<2LMcoefficient is reported (a reported coefficient is not processed as 0).

W _(F)=[f _(k) ₀ f _(k) ₁ . . . f _(k) _(M−1) ]

{tilde over (W)}₂ is composed of K=2LM linear combination coefficients,but (K−K₀) of the coefficients is 0.

A value of M (applied to all the 2L beams) is set in a higher layer, andan M base vector is dynamically selected (accordingly, reported as CSI).

The assumption of selection of a K₀ LC coefficient applied to all the 2Lbeams may be specified.

A value of K₀ may be fixed or may be set by a higher layer. K₀ LCcoefficients may be directly selected by a UE.

The coefficients and size of K₀ LC may be directly selected by a UE.Alternatively, in independent selection for all the 2L beams, M_(i)coefficients may be reported with respect to an i-th beam.

W_(f)=[W_(f)(0), . . . , W_(f)(2L-1)], W_(f)(i)=[f_(k) _(i,0) f_(k)_(i,1) . . . f_(k) _(i,mi−1) ], that is, M_(i) frequency domain elementsfor each beam may be selected.

{tilde over (W)}₂ may be composed of K=Σ_(i=0) ^(2L−1)M_(i) linearcombination coefficients.

A value of K applied to all the 2L beams may be set in a higher layer.

A size-M_(i) subset and a value of M_(i) may be directly selected by aUE.

A size-M_(i) subset may be dynamically selected by a UE, but a value ofM_(i) may be determined by a preset rule.

A size-M_(i) subset may be dynamically selected by a UE, but a value ofM_(i) may be set in a higher layer.

A size-M_(i) subset may be selected from a fixed base subset or abeam-common UE-selected middle subset of the fixed base subset.

In the above contents, {tilde over (W)}₂ is the same as C described inthe present disclosure. The size of {tilde over (W)}₂ may be defined as2L-by-M again. Hereinafter, {tilde over (W)}₂ is collectively described.Furthermore, f_(k) ₀ indicates specific column of a basis matrix (e.g.,(oversampled) DFT, IDFT, DCT) for compression, and f_(k) ₀ , . . . ,f_(k) _(M−1) may be composed of only an orthogonal pair.

<Proposal 5: if a plurality of basic matrices per combined beam isincluded in the frequency domain or the time domain compression, acorresponding mapping relation may be reported to a base station througha bitmap having the size of 2LM>

FIG. 30 is a diagram illustrating an example of the locations ofnon-zero coefficients, which is proposed in the present disclosure.

A relation between a basis matrix and a combined beam has a meaning whencoefficients constituting {tilde over (W)}₂ have a non-zero value. Ingeneral, when the intensity of a beam is relatively great, that is, theprobability that a plurality of meaningful values may be present in acolumn corresponding to a beam having relative great intensity is high.

Accordingly, a codebook may be configured by permitting the mapping of aplurality of basis matrices to only a beam whose intensity exceeds aspecific critical value by using a bitmap having the size of all 2LMs,rather than a method of providing notification of a configuration methodthrough the coefficients of {tilde over (W)}₂.

In this case, the specific critical value may be set by limiting theamplitude of a coefficient that constitutes {tilde over (W)}₂, forexample, to a beam having a specific value, for example, exceeding(√{square root over (0.5)}). Alternatively, the number of beams whichmay be included in a plurality of basis matrices may be specified.

For example, when L=2, 3, 4, the number of beams which may be includedin a plurality of basis matrices may be limited to Z=2,3,4 (out of 2L).The number of basis matrices may be included in the plurality of basismatrices may also be limited to a specific value (e.g., 3). The specificvalue may be previously agreed or a base station may signal the specificvalue to a UE or the UE may report the value.

In this case, the corresponding value determines a payload of Part 2CSI, and may be included in Part 1 CSI. This has an advantage in that apayload of CSI can be reduced because the size of a corresponding bitmapis reduced to a ZM-bitmap.

Furthermore, non-zero amplitude beams corresponding to 2L-Z may becomposed of only one basis matrix, and may be configured to be tied witha specific basis matrix. FIG. 30 illustrates the locations of non-zerocoefficients of {tilde over (W)}₂ (8-by-6 matrix). A slash indicates acoefficient having a relatively large size, and a straight lineindicates a beam corresponding to a relatively weak beam. Beams havingrelatively large sizes may be mapped to three basis matrices.

<Proposal 6: {tilde over (W)}₂ may be quantized through the followingmethod>

Alt 1: 3-bit SB Amplitude (1, √{square root over (1/2)}, √{square rootover (1/4)}, √{square root over (1/8)}, √{square root over (1/16)},√{square root over (1/32)}, √{square root over (1/64)}, 0),

Alt 2: 8PSK phase or 16 PSK

$3\text{-}{bit}\mspace{14mu}{WB}\mspace{14mu}{Amplitude}\mspace{14mu}\left( {1,\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}},\sqrt{\frac{1}{4}},\sqrt{\frac{1}{8}},\sqrt{\frac{1}{16}},\sqrt{\frac{1}{32}},\sqrt{\frac{1}{64}},0} \right)$$\mspace{76mu}{3\text{-}{bit}\mspace{14mu}{SB}\mspace{14mu}{Amplitude}\mspace{14mu}\left( {1,\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{4},\frac{1}{8},\frac{1}{16},\frac{1}{32},\frac{1}{64},0} \right)}$$\mspace{76mu}{2\text{-}{bit}\mspace{14mu}{SB}\mspace{14mu}{Amplitude}\mspace{14mu}\left( {1,\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{4},0} \right)}$

In the case of Proposal 6, WB amplitude includes 1 and 0 by using asquare root, and the remaining values thereof are composed of valuesobtained by multiplexing 1 by √{square root over (1/2)}. SB amplitudeincludes 1 and 0, and the remaining values thereof are composed ofvalues obtained by multiplexing 1 by 1/2. This is for obtaining greatergranularity by using the WB amplitude and the SB amplitude. The reasonfor this is that if the WB and SB amplitude use the same alphabet, adegree of freedom of quantization is reduced due to many redundantvalues, compared to a case where different alphabets are used.

<Proposal 7: when the time domain or frequency domain compression-basedcodebook is used, a base station may indicate a codebook subsetrestriction for a UE by using the following bitmap, and the bitmap maybe indicated through higher layer (RRC or MAC CE).

Alt 1: a combining beam that constitutes Wi may be restricted using abitmap of O₁O₂N₁N₂.

An RI is restricted as a 2-bit or 4-bit bitmap depending on a supportedMax RI.

Alt 2: amplitude of a combining coefficient may be restricted whilerestricting a combining beam that constructs W₁ by using the bitmap ofO₁O₂N₁N₂.

If a codebook subset restriction is indicated by the bitmap of Alt 1, aDFT beam corresponding to 1 on the bitmap may be restricted or a DFTbeam corresponding to 0 on the bitmap may be restricted. Likewise, an RIcorresponding to 1 (or 0) on a bitmap composed of 2 or 4 bits isrestricted.

Accordingly, a UE reports CSI by performing CSI calculation so that acorresponding DFT beam or RI is not reported in the CSI calculation. Abase station does not expect that the corresponding DFT beam or RI isreported by the UE.

In the case of Alt 2, a UE may understand that amplitude of a combinedcoefficient is restricted along with Alt1. If the UE uses an amplitudebitmap having 3 bits, the size of all bitmaps become 3 O1O2N1N2 bits,thus increasing overhead of RRC signaling. 2-bit amplitude may beconsidered or beam group-wise restriction may be considered.

When amplitude and a beam are simultaneously indicated by a bitmap, a UEcannot use a codebook because the UE uses specific amplitude or morewith respect to the indicated corresponding beam. For example, if acodebook subset restriction is applied so that a beam selected as asecond combining beam does not combine amplitude √{square root over(1/4)} or more, all combined coefficients in a second column of {tildeover (W)}₂ may not be calculated as amplitude of 1 or √{square root over(1/2)} (example of 3-bit amplitude).

<Proposal 8: when the number of SBs allocated in the time domain orfrequency domain compression-based codebook configuration method isgreater than a specific number, codebook parameters that constituterespective portions may be fully independently configured or some of theparameters may be applied between the portions in common>

FIG. 31 is a diagram illustrating an example of CSI consisting of twoparts, which is proposed in the present disclosure.

Specifically, in the time domain or a frequency domain configurationmethod, when N_(SB), (or N_(SB)/2), that is, the number of SBs allocatedfor CSI reporting is greater than a specific number, the time domain orfrequency domain compression-based codebook configuration method may beperformed using two portions for a performance gain as illustrated inFIG. 31.

In this case, all codebook parameters that constitute respectiveportions may be independently configured or at least one of thefollowing parameter may be applied to each of the portions in common.

That is, at least one of the following parameters may include each ofthe portions in common.

In {tilde over (C)} ∈ C^(2L×K), information of non-zero coefficients(e.g., bitmap)

Information for a frequency domain projection basis W_(F) ∈ C^(N) ^(RB)^(×K)

FIG. 32 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method of receiving,by a base station, CSI, which is proposed in the present disclosure.FIG. 32 is merely for convenience of description, and does not restrictthe scope of the present disclosure. A method and/or a proceduredescribed with reference to FIG. 32 may be implemented by variousdevices as described with reference to FIGS. 35 to 40.

Referring to FIG. 32, a base station may receive parameters related toCSI measured by a UE.

Specifically, the base station (e.g., 3610 or 3620 in FIG. 36) maytransmit, to the UE (e.g., 3610 or 3620 in FIG. 36) system informationand scheduling information through a higher layer (S32010).

For example, the operation of transmitting, by the base station, thesystem information and the scheduling information to the UE through ahigher layer in step S32010 may be implemented by an apparatus of FIGS.35 to 41 to be described later. For example, referring to FIG. 36, oneor more processors 102 may control one or more transceivers 106 and/orone or more memories 104 to transmit the system information and thescheduling information. The one or more transceivers 106 may transmitthe system information and the scheduling information to the UE.

The system information (or configuration information) may includeconfigured values for obtaining, by the UE, parameters included in CSIand a plurality of parameters for compressing the CSI.

The base station may transmit a reference signal (e.g., SSB, CSI-RS, TRSand/or PTRS) to the UE so that the UE may obtain the CSI based on thesystem information and transmit the CSI (S32020).

For example, the operation of transmitting, by the base station, thereference signal to the UE in step S32020 may be implemented by theapparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later. For example,referring to FIG. 36, the one or more processors 102 may control the oneor more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories 104 so that thebase station transmits the reference signal to the UE. The one or moretransceivers 106 of the base station may transmit the reference signalto the UE.

Thereafter, the base station may allocate a resource for CSItransmission to the UE by transmitting downlink control information(DCI) through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) (S32030).

For example, the operation of allocating the resource for CSItransmission to the UE by transmitting the downlink control informationthrough the physical downlink control channel in step S32030 may beimplemented by the apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later.For example, referring to FIG. 36, the one or more processors 102 maycontrol the one or more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories104 to perform the operation of allocating the resource for CSItransmission to the UE by transmitting the downlink control informationthrough the physical downlink control channel. The one or moretransceivers 106 may transmit the DCI to the UE.

Thereafter, the base station may receive the CSI on the allocatedresource (S32040). For example, the operation of reporting thecalculated CSI to the base station in step S32040 may be implemented bythe apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later. For example,referring to FIG. 36, the one or more processors 102 may control the oneor more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories 104 to performthe operation of reporting the calculated CSI to the base stationthrough the physical downlink control channel. The one or moretransceivers 106 may receive the CSI transmitted by the UE.

As described in Method 1 and Method 2 or Proposal 1 to Proposal 8, theCSI may be divided into Type I and Type II, and may be composed of Part1 CSI and Part 2 CSI. Furthermore, as described in Proposal 1 toProposal 8, the CSI may be calculated based on a compression method inthe time domain or the frequency domain by a plurality of codebookparameters.

For example, Part 1 CSI may include a rank indicator (RI), a channelquality indicator (CQI) and an indicator indicating the number ofnon-zero amplification coefficients. The part 2 CSI may include aprecoding matrix indicator (PMI).

Furthermore, as described in Proposal 1-1 to Proposal 1-3, some of orthe entire CSI may be omitted based on the capacity of a resourceallocated for CSI transmission or may be additionally compressed andtransmitted in the time domain or frequency domain.

For example, when the capacity of the resource allocated to transmit theCSI is smaller than the size of a payload of the CSI calculated based onthe plurality of parameters, Part 2 CSI may be compressed by applying atleast one parameter to Part 2 CSI until the size of the payload issmaller than the capacity of the resource.

Thereafter, the base station may calculate data scheduling and precodingbased on the CSI, and may transmit, to the UE, data to which thecalculated precoding has been applied and a reference signal (e.g.,DMRS, TRS, PTRS) for data decoding.

Through such a method, a base station can receive CSI when a payload ofCSI calculated by a UE is greater than an allocated resource.

FIG. 33 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method oftransmitting, by a UE, CSI, which is proposed in the present disclosure.FIG. 33 is merely for convenience of description, and does not restrictthe scope of the present disclosure. A method and/or a proceduredescribed with reference to FIG. 33 may be implemented by variousdevices as described with reference to FIGS. 35 to 41.

Referring to FIG. 33, a UE may transmit only some of CSI or may drop theentire CSI when calculated CSI is greater than an allocated resource.

Specifically, the UE (e.g., 3610 or 3620 in FIG. 36) may receiveconfiguration information for CSI reporting from a base station (e.g.,3610 or 3620 in FIG. 36) through a higher layer (S32010).

For example, the operation of receiving, by the UE, the configurationinformation for CSI reporting from the base station in step S32010 maybe implemented by the apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later.For example, referring to FIG. 36, the one or more processors 102 maycontrol the one or more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories104 to receive the configuration information for CSI reporting. The oneor more transceivers 106 may receive the configuration information forCSI reporting, which is transmitted by the base station.

The configuration information may include configured values forobtaining, by the UE, parameters included in CSI and a plurality ofparameters for compressing the CSI.

The UE may receive a reference signal (e.g., SSB, CSI-RS, TRS and/orPTRS) from the base station in order to report the CSI based on theconfiguration information (S33020).

For example, the operation of receiving, by the UE, the reference signalfrom the base station in step S33020 may be implemented by the apparatusof FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later. For example, referring to FIG.36, the one or more processors 102 may control the one or moretransceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories 104 so that the UEreceives the reference signal from the base station. The one or moretransceivers 106 of the UE may receive the reference signal from thebase station.

Thereafter, the UE may receive, from the base station, a resource forCSI transmission allocated thereto by receiving downlink controlinformation (DCI) through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)(S33030).

For example, the operation of receiving, by the UE, the DCI for resourceallocation from the base station in step S33030 may be implemented bythe apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later. For example,referring to FIG. 36, the one or more processors 102 of the UE maycontrol the one or more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories104 to perform the operation of receiving the DCI for resourceallocation from the base station through the physical downlink controlchannel. The one or more transceivers 106 of the base station maytransmit the DCI to the UE.

Thereafter, the UE may derive parameters related to the CSI bycalculating the parameters based on the configuration information(S33040).

For example, the operation of calculating and deriving the parametersrelated to the CSI based on the configuration information in step S33040may be implemented by the apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be describedlater. For example, referring to FIG. 36, the one or more processors 102may operate to perform the operation of calculating and deriving theparameters related to the CSI based on the configuration information.

Thereafter, the UE may transmit the CSI to the base station on theallocated resource (S33050). For example, the operation of transmittingthe CSI to the base station on the allocated resource in step S33050 maybe implemented by the apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later.For example, referring to FIG. 30, the one or more processors 102 maycontrol the one or more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories104 to perform the operation of transmitting the CSI to the base stationon the allocated resource. The one or more transceivers 106 may transmitthe CSI to the base station on the allocated resource.

As described in Method 1 and Method 2 or Proposal 1 to Proposal 8, theCSI may be divided into Type I and Type II, and may be composed of Part1 CSI and Part 2 CSI. Furthermore, as described in Proposal 1 toProposal 8, the CSI may be calculated based on a compression method inthe time domain or the frequency domain by a plurality of codebookparameters.

For example, Part 1 CSI may include a rank indicator (RI), a channelquality indicator (CQI) and an indicator indicating the number ofnon-zero amplification coefficients. The part 2 CSI may include aprecoding matrix indicator (PMI).

Furthermore, as described in Proposal 1-1 to Proposal 1-3, some of orthe entire CSI may be omitted based on the capacity of a resourceallocated for CSI transmission or may be additionally compressed andtransmitted in the time domain or frequency domain.

For example, when the capacity of the resource allocated to transmit theCSI is smaller than the size of a payload of the CSI calculated based onthe plurality of parameters, Part 2 CSI may be compressed by applying atleast one parameter to Part 2 CSI until the size of the payload issmaller than the capacity of the resource.

Thereafter, the base station may calculate data scheduling and precodingbased on the CSI, and may transmit, to the UE, data to which thecalculated precoding has been applied and a reference signal (e.g.,DMRS, TRS, PTRS) for data decoding.

FIG. 34 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a procedure forreporting CSI, which is proposed in the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 34, some of CSI calculated by a UE may be compressedor omitted depending on the capacity of a resource allocated by a basestation. FIG. 33 is merely for convenience of description, and does notrestrict the scope of the present disclosure.

Specifically, the UE (e.g., 3610 or 3620 in FIG. 36) may receiveconfiguration information for CSI reporting from the base station (e.g.,3610 or 3620 in FIG. 36) through a higher layer (S34010).

For example, the operation of receiving, by the UE, the configurationinformation for CSI reporting from the base station in step S34010 maybe implemented by the apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later.For example, referring to FIG. 36, the one or more processors 102 maycontrol the one or more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories104 to receive the configuration information for CSI reporting. The oneor more transceivers 106 may receive the configuration information forCSI reporting, which is transmitted by the base station.

The configuration information may include configured values forobtaining, by the UE, parameters included in the CSI and a plurality ofparameters for compressing the CSI.

The UE may receive a reference signal (e.g., SSB, CSI-RS, TRS and/orPTRS) from the base station in order to report the CSI based on theconfiguration information (S34020).

For example, the operation of receiving, by the UE, the reference signalfrom the base station in step S34020 may be implemented by the apparatusof FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later. For example, referring to FIG.36, the one or more processors 102 of the UE may control the one or moretransceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories 104 to receive thereference signal from the base station. The one or more transceivers 106of the UE may receive the reference signal from the base station.

Thereafter, the UE may receive, from the base station, a resource forCSI transmission allocated thereto by receiving downlink controlinformation (DCI) through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)(S34030).

For example, the operation of receiving, by the UE, the DCI for resourceallocation from the base station in step S34030 may be implemented bythe apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later. For example,referring to FIG. 36, the one or more processors 102 of the UE maycontrol the one or more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories104 to perform the operation of receiving the DCI for resourceallocation from the base station through the physical downlink controlchannel. The one or more transceivers 106 of the base station maytransmit the DCI to the UE.

Thereafter, the UE may derive parameters related to the CSI bycalculating the parameters based on the configuration information(S34040).

For example, the operation of calculating and deriving the parametersrelated to the CSI based on the configuration information in step S34040may be implemented by the apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be describedlater. For example, referring to FIG. 36, the one or more processors 102may operate to perform the operation of calculating and deriving theparameters related to the CSI based on the configuration information.

Thereafter, the UE may transmit the CSI to the base station on theallocated resource (S34050). For example, the operation of transmittingthe CSI to the base station on the allocated resource in step S34050 maybe implemented by the apparatus of FIGS. 35 to 41 to be described later.For example, referring to FIG. 30, the one or more processors 102 maycontrol the one or more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories104 to perform the operation of transmitting the CSI to the base stationon the allocated resource. The one or more transceivers 106 may transmitthe CSI to the base station on the allocated resource.

As described in Method 1 and Method 2 or Proposal 1 to Proposal 8, theCSI may be divided into Type I and Type II, and may be composed of Part1 CSI and Part 2 CSI. Furthermore, as described in Proposal 1 toProposal 8, the CSI may be calculated based on a compression method inthe time domain or the frequency domain by a plurality of codebookparameters.

For example, Part 1 CSI may include a rank indicator (RI), a channelquality indicator (CQI) and an indicator indicating the number ofnon-zero amplification coefficients. The part 2 CSI may include aprecoding matrix indicator (PMI).

Furthermore, as described in Proposal 1-1 to Proposal 1-3, some of orthe entire CSI may be omitted based on the capacity of a resourceallocated for CSI transmission or may be additionally compressed andtransmitted in the time domain or frequency domain.

For example, when the capacity of the resource allocated to transmit theCSI is smaller than the size of a payload of the CSI calculated based onthe plurality of parameters, Part 2 CSI may be compressed by applying atleast one parameter to Part 2 CSI until the size of the payload issmaller than the capacity of the resource.

FIG. 35 illustrates a communication system 3500 applied to the presentdisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 35, the communication system 3500 applied to thepresent disclosure includes a wireless device, a base station, and anetwork. Here, the wireless device may mean a device that performscommunication by using a wireless access technology (e.g., 5G New RAT(NR) or Long Term Evolution (LTE)) and may be referred to as acommunication/wireless/5G device. Although not limited thereto, thewireless device may include a robot 3510 a, vehicles 3510 b-1 and 3510b-2, an eXtended Reality (XR) device 3510 c, a hand-held device 3510 d,a home appliance 3510 e, an Internet of Thing (IoT) device 3510 f, andan AI device/server 400. For example, the vehicle may include a vehiclewith a wireless communication function, an autonomous driving vehicle, avehicle capable of performing inter-vehicle communication, and the like.Here, the vehicle may include an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) (e.g.,drone). The XR device may include an Augmented Reality (AR)/VirtualReality (VR)/Mixed Reality (MR) device and may be implemented as a formsuch as a head-mounted device (HMD), a head-up display (HUD) provided inthe vehicle, a television, a smart phone, a computer, a wearable device,a home appliance device, digital signage, a vehicle, a robot, etc. Thehand-held device may include the smart phone, a smart pad, a wearabledevice (e.g., a smart watch, a smart glass), a computer (e.g., anotebook, etc.), and the like. The home appliance device may include aTV, a refrigerator, a washing machine, and the like. The IoT device mayinclude a sensor, a smart meter, and the like. For example, the basestation and the network may be implemented even the wireless device anda specific wireless device 20000a may operate a base station/networknode for another wireless device.

The wireless devices 3510 a to 3510 f may be connected to a network 300through the base station 3520. An artificial intelligence (AI)technology may be applied to the wireless devices 3510 a to 3510 f andthe wireless devices 3510 a to 3510 f may be connected to the AI server400 through the network 300. The network 300 may be configured by usinga 3G network, a 4G (e.g., LTE) network, or a 5G (e.g., NR) network. Thewireless devices 3510 a to 3510 f may communicate with each otherthrough the base stration 3520/network 300, but may directly communicatewith each other without going through the base station/network (sidelinkcommunication). For example, the vehicles 3510 b-1 and 3510 b-2 mayperform direct communication (e.g., Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V)/Vehicle toeverything (V2X) communication). Furthermore, the IoT device (e.g.,sensor) may perform direct communication with other IoT devices (e.g.,sensor) or other wireless devices 3510 a to 3510 f

Wireless communications/connections 150 a, 150 b, and 150 c may be madebetween the wireless devices 3510 a to 3510 f/the base stration 3520 andbetween the base stration 3520 and the base station 3520. Here, thewireless communication/connection may be made through various wirelessaccess technologies (e.g., 5G NR) such as uplink/downlink communication150 a, sidelink communication 150 b (or D2D communication), andinter-base station communication 150 c (e.g., relay, Integrated AccessBackhaul (IAB)). The wireless device and the base station/the wirelessdevice and the base station and the base station may transmit/receiveradio signals to/from each other through wirelesscommunications/connections 150 a, 150 b, and 150 c. For example, thewireless communications/connections 150 a, 150 b, and 150 c maytransmit/receive signals through various physical channels. To this end,based on various proposals of the present disclosure, at least some ofvarious configuration information setting processes, various signalprocessing processes (e.g., channel encoding/decoding,modulation/demodulation, resource mapping/demapping, etc.), a resourceallocation process, and the like for transmission/reception of the radiosignal may be performed.

Example of Wireless Device to Which the Present Disclosure is Applied

FIG. 36 illustrates a wireless device applicable to the presentdisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 36, the first wireless device 3610 and a secondwireless device 3620 may transmit/receive radio signals through variouswireless access technologies (e.g., LTE and NR). Here, the firstwireless device 3610 and the second wireless device 3620 may correspondto a wireless device 3610 x and a base station 3520 and/or a wirelessdevice 3610 x and a wireless device 3610 x of FIG. 35.

The first wireless device 3610 may include one or more processors 102and one or more memories 104 and additionally further include one ormore transceivers 106 and/or one or more antennas 108. The processor 102may control the memory 104 and/or the transceiver 106 and may beconfigured to implement descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals,methods, and/or operation flows disclosed in the present disclosure. Forexample, the processor 102 may process information in the memory 104 andgenerate a first information/signal and then transmit a radio signalincluding the first information/signal through the transceiver 106.Furthermore, the processor 102 may receive a radio signal including asecond information/signal through the transceiver 106 and then store inthe memory 104 information obtained from signal processing of the secondinformation/signal. The memory 104 may connected to the processor 102and store various information related to an operation of the processor102. For example, the memory 104 may store a software code includinginstructions for performing some or all of processes controlled by theprocessor 102 or performing the descriptions, functions, procedures,proposals, methods, and/or operation flowcharts disclosed in the presentdisclosure. Here, the processor 102 and the memory 104 may be a part ofa communication modem/circuit/chip designated to implement the wirelesscommunication technology (e.g., LTE and NR). The transceiver 106 may beconnected to the processor 102 and may transmit and/or receive the radiosignals through one or more antennas 108. The transceiver 106 mayinclude a transmitter and/or a receiver. The transceiver 106 may be usedmixedly with a radio frequency (RF) unit. In the present disclosure, thewireless device may mean the communication modem/circuit/chip.

The second wireless device 3620 may include one or more processors 202and one or more memories 204 and additionally further include one ormore transceivers 206 and/or one or more antennas 208. The processor 202may control the memory 204 and/or the transceiver 206 and may beconfigured to implement descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals,methods, and/or operation flows disclosed in the present disclosure. Forexample, the processor 202 may process information in the memory 204 andgenerate a third information/signal and then transmit a radio signalincluding the third information/signal through the transceiver 206.Furthermore, the processor 202 may receive a radio signal including afourth information/signal through the transceiver 206 and then store inthe memory 204 information obtained from signal processing of the fourthinformation/signal. The memory 204 may connected to the processor 202and store various information related to an operation of the processor202. For example, the memory 204 may store a software code includinginstructions for performing some or all of processes controlled by theprocessor 202 or performing the descriptions, functions, procedures,proposals, methods, and/or operation flowcharts disclosed in the presentdisclosure. Here, the processor 202 and the memory 204 may be a part ofa communication modem/circuit/chip designated to implement the wirelesscommunication technology (e.g., LTE and NR). The transceiver 206 may beconnected to the processor 202 and may transmit and/or receive the radiosignals through one or more antennas 208. The transceiver 206 mayinclude a transmitter and/or a receiver. The transceiver 206 may be usedmixedly with a radio frequency (RF) unit. In the present disclosure, thewireless device may mean the communication modem/circuit/chip.

Hereinafter, hardware elements of the wireless devices 3610 and 3620will be described in more detail. Although not limited thereto, one ormore protocol layers may be implemented by one or more processors 102and 202. For example, one or more processors 102 and 202 may implementone or more layers (e.g., functional layers such as PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP,RRC, and SDAP). One or more processors 102 and 202 may generate one ormore protocol data units (PDUs) and/or one or more service data units(SDUs) according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals,methods, and/or operation flowcharts disclosed in the presentdisclosure. One or more processors 102 and 202 may generate a message,control information, data, or information according to the descriptions,functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operation flowchartsdisclosed in the present disclosure. One or more processors 102 and 202may generate a signal (e.g., a baseband signal) including the PDU, theSDU, the message, the control information, the data, or the informationaccording to the function, the procedure, the proposal, and/or themethod disclosed in the present disclosure and provide the generatedsignal to one or more transceivers 106 and 206. One or more processors102 and 202 may receive the signal (e.g., baseband signal) from one ormore transceivers 106 and 206 and acquire the PDU, the SDU, the message,the control information, the data, or the information according to thedescriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/oroperation flowcharts disclosed in the present disclosure.

One or more processors 102 and 202 may be referred to as a controller, amicrocontroller, a microprocessor, or a microcomputer. One or moreprocessors 102 and 202 may be implemented by hardware, firmware,software, or a combination thereof. As one example, one or moreApplication Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), one or more DigitalSignal Processors (DSPs), one or more Digital Signal Processing Devices(DSPDs), one or more Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), or one or moreField Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) may be included in one or moreprocessors 102 and 202. The descriptions, functions, procedures,proposals, and/or operation flowcharts disclosed in the presentdisclosure may be implemented by using firmware or software and thefirmware or software may be implemented to include modules, procedures,functions, and the like. Firmware or software configured to perform thedescriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, and/or operationflowcharts disclosed in the present disclosure may be included in one ormore processors 102 and 202 or stored in one or more memories 104 and204 and driven by one or more processors 102 and 202. The descriptions,functions, procedures, proposals, and/or operation flowcharts disclosedin the present disclosure may be implemented by using firmware orsoftware in the form of a code, the instruction and/or a set form of theinstruction.

One or more memories 104 and 204 may be connected to one or moreprocessors 102 and 202 and may store various types of data, signals,messages, information, programs, codes, instructions, and/or commands.One or more memories 104 and 204 may be configured by a ROM, a RAM, anEPROM, a flash memory, a hard drive, a register, a cache memory, acomputer reading storage medium, and/or a combination thereof. One ormore memories 104 and 204 may be positioned inside and/or outside one ormore processors 102 and 202. Furthermore, one or more memories 104 and204 may be connected to one or more processors 102 and 202 throughvarious technologies such as wired or wireless connection.

One or more transceivers 106 and 206 may transmit to one or more otherdevices user data, control information, a wireless signal/channel, etc.,mentioned in the methods and/or operation flowcharts of the presentdisclosure. One or more transceivers 106 and 206 may receive from one ormore other devices user data, control information, a wirelesssignal/channel, etc., mentioned in the descriptions, functions,procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operation flowcharts disclosed inthe present disclosure. For example, one or more transceivers 106 and206 may be connected to one or more processors 102 and 202 and transmitand receive the radio signals. For example, one or more processors 102and 202 may control one or more transceivers 106 and 206 to transmit theuser data, the control information, or the radio signal to one or moreother devices. Furthermore, one or more processors 102 and 202 maycontrol one or more transceivers 106 and 206 to receive the user data,the control information, or the radio signal from one or more otherdevices. Furthermore, one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may beconnected to one or more antennas 108 and 208 and one or moretransceivers 106 and 206 may be configured to transmit and receive theuser data, control information, wireless signal/channel, etc., mentionedin the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/oroperation flowcharts disclosed in the present disclosure through one ormore antennas 108 and 208. In the present disclosure one or moreantennas may be a plurality of physical antennas or a plurality oflogical antennas (e.g., antenna ports). One or more transceivers 106 and206 may convert the received radio signal/channel from an RF band signalto a baseband signal in order to process the received user data, controlinformation, radio signal/channel, etc., by using one or more processors102 and 202. One or more transceivers 106 and 206 may convert the userdata, control information, radio signal/channel, etc., processed byusing one or more processors 102 and 202, from the baseband signal intothe RF band signal. To this end, one or more transceivers 106 and 206may include an (analog) oscillator and/or filter.

Utilization Example of Wireless Device to Which the Present Disclosureis Applied

FIG. 37 illustrates another example of a wireless device applied to thepresent disclosure. The wireless device may be implemented as varioustypes according to a use example/service (see FIG. 35).

Referring to FIG. 37, wireless devices 3010 and 3020 may correspond tothe wireless devices 3010 and 3020 of FIG. 36 and may be constituted byvarious elements, components, units, and/or modules. For example, thewireless devices 3010 and 3020 may include the communication unit 110,the control unit 120, the memory unit 130, and the additional element140. The communication unit may include a communication circuit 112 anda transceiver(s) 114. For example, the communication circuit 112 mayinclude the one or more processors 102 and 202 and/or one or morememories 104 and 204 of FIG. 36. For example, the transceiver(s) 114 mayinclude the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 and/or one or moreantennas 108 and 208 of FIG. 36. The control unit 120 is electricallyconnected to the communication unit 110, the memory unit 130, and theadditional element 140 and controls an overall operation of the wirelessdevice. For example, the control unit 120 may an electrical/mechanicaloperation of the wireless device based on aprogram/code/instruction/information stored in the memory unit 130.Furthermore, the control unit 120 may transmit the information stored inthe memory unit 130 to the outside (e.g., other communication devices)through the communication unit 110 via a wireless/wired interface orstore, in the memory unit 130, information received from the outside(e.g., other communication devices) through the wireless/wired interfacethrough the communication unit 110.

The additional element 140 may be variously configured according to thetype of wireless device. For example, the additional element 140 mayinclude at least one of a power unit/battery, an input/output (I/O)unit, a driving unit, and a computing unit. Although not limitedthereto, the wireless device may be implemented as a form such as therobot 3510 a of FIG. 35, the vehicles 3510 b-1 and 3510 b-2 of FIG. 35,the XR device 3510 c of FIG. 35, the hand-held device 3510 d of FIG. 35,the home appliance 3510 e of FIG. 35, the IoT device 3510 f of FIG. 35,a digital broadcasting terminal, a hologram device, a public safetydevice, an MTC device, a medical device, a fintech device (or financialdevice), a security device, a climate/environment device, the AIserver/device 400 of FIG. 35, the base station 3520 of FIG. 35, anetwork node, etc. The wireless device may be movable or may be used ata fixed place according to a use example/service.

In FIG. 37, all of various elements, components, units, and/or modulesin the wireless devices 3010 and 3020 may be interconnected through thewired interface or at least may be wirelessly connected through thecommunication unit 110. For example, the control unit 120 and thecommunication unit 110 in the wireless devices 3010 and 3020 may bewiredly connected and the control unit 120 and the first unit (e.g., 130or 140) may be wirelessly connected through the communication unit 110.Further, each element, component, unit, and/or module in the wirelessdevices 3010 and 3020 may further include one or more elements. Forexample, the control unit 120 may be constituted by one or moreprocessor sets. For example, the control unit 120 may be configured aset of a communication control processor, an application processor, anelectronic control unit (ECU), a graphic processing processor, a memorycontrol processor, etc. As another example, the memory 130 may beconfigured as a random access memory (RAM), a dynamic RAM (DRAM), a readonly memory (ROM), a flash memory, a volatile memory, a non-volatilememory, and/or combinations thereof.

Hereinafter, an implementation example of FIG. 37 will be described inmore detail with reference to FIG. 38.

Example of Handheld Device to Which the Present Disclosure is Applied

FIG. 38 illustrates a hand-held device applied to the presentdisclosure. The hand-held device may include a smart phone, a smart pad,a wearable device (e.g., a smart watch, a smart glass), and a portablecomputer (e.g., a notebook, etc.). The hand-held device may be referredto as a Mobile Station (MS), a user terminal (UT), a Mobile SubscriberStation (MSS), a Subscriber Station (SS), an Advanced Mobile Station(AMS), or a Wireless terminal (WT).

Referring to FIG. 38, the handheld device 3610 may include an antennaunit 108, a communication unit 110, a control unit 120, a memory unit130, a power supply unit 140 a, an interface unit 140 b, and aninput/output unit 140 c. The antenna unit 108 may be configured as apart of the communication unit 110. The blocks 110 to 130/140 a to 140 ccorrespond to the blocks 110 to 130/140 of FIG. 35, respectively.

The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive a signal (e.g.,data, a control signal)to and from other wireless devices and basestations. The control unit 120 may perform various operations bycontrolling components of the handheld device 3610. The control unit 120may include an Application Processor (AP). The memory unit 130 may storedata/parameters/programs/codes/instructions required for driving thehandheld device 3610. Furthermore, the memory unit 130 may storeinput/output data/information, etc. The power supply unit 140 a maysupply power to the handheld device 3610 and include a wired/wirelesscharging circuit, a battery, and the like. The interface unit 140 b maysupport a connection between the handheld device 3610 and anotherexternal device. The interface unit 140 b may include various ports(e.g., an audio input/output port, a video input/output port) for theconnection with the external device. The input/output unit 140 c mayreceive or output a video information/signal, an audioinformation/signal, data, and/or information input from a user. Theinput/output unit 140 c may include a camera, a microphone, a user inputunit, a display unit 140 d, a speaker, and/or a haptic module.

As one example, in the case of data communication, the input/output unit140 c may acquire information/signal (e.g., touch, text, voice, image,and video) input from the user and the acquired information/signal maybe stored in the memory unit 130. The communication unit 110 maytransform, into a radio signal, the information/signal stored in thememory, and may directly transmit the radio signal to another wirelessdevice or may transmit the radio signal to the base station. Further,the communication unit 110 may receive the radio signal from anotherwireless device or base station and then reconstruct the received radiosignal into the original information/signal. The reconstructedinformation/signal may be stored in the memory unit 130 and then outputin various forms (e.g., text, voice, image, video, or haptic) throughthe input/output unit 140 c.

Example of AI apparatus to which the present disclosure is applied

FIG. 39 illustrates an AI apparatus applied to the present disclosure.The AI apparatus may be implemented as a stationary device or a movabledevice, such as TV, a projector, a smartphone, PC, a notebook, aterminal for digital broadcasting, a tablet PC, a wearable device, aset-top box (STB), a radio, a washing machine, a refrigerator, a digitalsignage, a robot, and a vehicle.

Referring to FIG. 39, the AI apparatus 3610 may include a communicationunit 110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, an input/output unit140 a/ 140 b, a learning processor unit 140 c, and a sensing unit 140 d.The blocks 110 to 130/140 a to 140 d correspond to the block 110 to130/140 of FIG. 35, respectively.

The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive wired/wirelesssignals (e.g., sensor information, user input, a learning model, and acontrol signal) to and from an external device, such as another AIapparatus (e.g., 3510 x, 3520, 400 in FIG. 35) or the AI server (e.g.,400 in FIG. 40) by using wired/wireless communication technologies. Tothis end, the communication unit 110 may transmit information within thememory unit 130 to the external device or may deliver, to the memoryunit 130, a signal received from the external device.

The control unit 120 may determine at least one executable operation ofthe AI apparatus 3010 based on information determined or generated usinga data analysis algorithm or a machine learning algorithm. Furthermore,the control unit 120 may perform the determined operation by controllingcomponents of the AI apparatus 3610. For example, the control unit 120may request, search for, receive or use data of the learning processorunit 140 c or the memory unit 130, and may control components of the AIapparatus 3610 to execute an operation predicted among at least oneexecutable operation or an operation determined to be preferred.Furthermore, the control unit 120 may collect history informationincluding the contents of an operation of the AI apparatus 3610 orfeedback from a user for the operation, and may store the historyinformation in the memory unit 130 or the learning processor unit 140 cor may transmit the history information to an external device, such asthe AI server (400 in FIG. 40). The collected history information may beused to update a learning model.

The memory unit 130 may store data that supporting various functions ofthe AI apparatus 3610. For example, the memory unit 130 may store dataobtained from the input unit 140 a, data obtained from the communicationunit 110, output data of the learning processor unit 140 c, and dataobtained from the sensing unit 140. Furthermore, the memory unit 130 maystore control information and/or a software code necessary for anoperation/execution of the control unit 120.

The input unit 140 a may obtain various types of data from the outsideof the AI apparatus 3610. For example, the input unit 140 a may obtainlearning data for model learning, input data to which a learning modelwill be applied, etc. The input unit 140 a may include a camera, amicrophone and/or a user input unit. The output unit 140 b may generateoutput related to a sense of sight, a sense of hearing, or a tactilesense. The output unit 140 b may include a display, a speaker and/or ahaptic module. The sensing unit 140 may obtain at least one of internalinformation of the AI apparatus 3610, surrounding environmentinformation of the AI apparatus 3610, and user information by usingvarious sensors. The sensing unit 140 may include a proximity sensor, anillumination sensor, an acceleration sensor, a magnetic sensor, a gyrosensor, an inertia sensor, an RGB sensor, an IR sensor, a fingerprintrecognition sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, an optical sensor, amicrophone and/or a radar.

The learning processor unit 140 c may train a model composed of anartificial neural network by using learning data. The learning processorunit 140 c may perform AI processing along with the learning processorunit of the AI server (400 in FIG. 35). The learning processor unit 140c may process information received from the external device through thecommunication unit 110 and/or information stored in the memory unit 130.Furthermore, an output value of the learning processor unit 140 c may betransmitted to the external device through the communication unit 110or/and stored in the memory unit 130.

FIG. 40 illustrates an AI server applied to the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 40, the AI server (400 in FIG. 40) may mean anapparatus which trains an artificial neural network by using a machinelearning algorithm and uses a trained artificial neural network. In thiscase, the AI server 400 is composed of a plurality of servers, mayperform distributed processing, and may be defined as a 5G network. Inthis case, the AI server 400 may be included in some component of the AIapparatus (3610 in FIG. 39), and may perform at least some of AIprocessing together.

The AI server 400 may include a communication unit 410, a memory 430, alearning processor 440, a processor 460, etc. The communication unit 410may transmit and receive data to and from an external device, such asthe AI apparatus (3610 in FIG. 39). The memory 430 may include a modelstorage 431. The model storage 431 may store a model (or artificialneural network 431 a) which is trained or has been trained through thelearning processor 440. The learning processor 440 may train theartificial neural network 431 a by using learning data. A learning modelmay be used in the state in which the model has been mounted on the AIserver 400 of the artificial neural network or may be mounted and usedin an external device, such as the AI apparatus (3610 in FIG. 39). Thelearning model may be implemented as hardware, software or a combinationof hardware and software. If some of or the entire learning model isimplemented as software, one or more instructions that construct thelearning model may be stored in the memory 430. The processor 460 mayinfer a result value of new input data by using the learning model, andmay generate a response or control instruction based on the inferredresult value.

The AI server 400 and/or the AI apparatus 3010 may be combined andapplied with the robot 3510 a, the vehicle 3510 b-1 and 3510 b-2, theextended reality (XR) device 3510 c, the handheld device 3510 d, thehome appliances 3510 e, and the Internet of Thing (IoT) device 3510 fover the network (300 in FIG. 35). The robot 3510 a, the vehicle 3510b-1 and 3510 b-2, the extended reality (XR) device 3510 c, the handhelddevice 3510 d, the home appliances 3510 e, and the Internet of Thing(IoT) device 3510 f to which the AI technology has been applied may bedenoted as an AI apparatus.

Hereinafter, examples of the AI apparatus are described.

(Example of Fourth AI Apparatus—AI+Robot+Autonomous Driving)

An AI technology is applied to the robot 3510 a. The robot 3510 a may beimplemented as a guidance robot, a transport robot, a cleaning robot, awearable robot, an entertainment robot, a pet robot, an unmanned flightrobot, etc. The robot 3510 a may include a robot control module forcontrolling an operation. The robot control module may mean a softwaremodule or a chip in which a software module has been implemented usinghardware. The robot 3510 a may obtain state information of the robot3510 a, may detect (recognize) a surrounding environment and object, maygenerate map data, may determine a moving path and a running plan, maydetermine a response to a user interaction, or may determine anoperation using sensor information obtained from various types ofsensors. In this case, the robot 3510 a may use sensor informationobtained by at least one sensor among LIDAR, a radar, and a camera inorder to determine the moving path and running plan.

The robot 3510 a may perform the above operations using a learning modelconfigured with at least one artificial neural network. For example, therobot 3510 a may recognize a surrounding environment and object using alearning model, and may determine an operation using recognizedsurrounding environment information or object information. In this case,the learning model may have been directly trained in the robot 3510 a ormay have been trained in an external device, such as the AI server 400.In this case, the robot 3510 a may directly generate results using thelearning model and perform an operation, but may perform an operation bytransmitting sensor information to an external device, such as the AIserver 400, and receiving results generated in response thereto.

The robot 3510 a may determine a moving path and running plan using atleast one of map data, object information detected from sensorinformation, or object information obtained from an external device. Therobot 3510 a may run along the determined moving path and running planby controlling the driving unit. The map data may include objectidentification information for various objects disposed in the space inwhich the robot 3510 a moves. For example, the map data may includeobject identification information for fixed objects, such as a wall anda door, and movable objects, such as a flowport and a desk. Furthermore,the object identification information may include a name, a type, adistance, a location, etc.

Furthermore, the robot 3510 a may perform an operation or run bycontrolling the driving unit based on a user's control/interaction. Inthis case, the robot 3510 a may obtain intention information of aninteraction according to a user's behavior or voice speaking, maydetermine a response based on the obtained intention information, andmay perform an operation.

(Example of Second AI Apparatus—AI+Autonomous Driving+XR)

An AI technology is applied to the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510b-2. The self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may be implemented as amovable type robot, a vehicle, an unmanned flight body, etc. Theself-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may include a self-drivingcontrol module for controlling a self-driving function. The self-drivingcontrol module may mean a software module or a chip in which a softwaremodule has been implemented using hardware. The self-driving controlmodule may be included in the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 asan element of the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2, but may beconfigured as separate hardware outside the self-driving vehicle 3510b-1, 3510 b-2 and connected to the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510b-2.

The self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may obtain state informationof the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2, may detect (recognize) asurrounding environment and object, may generate map data, may determinea moving path and running plan, or may determine an operation usingsensor information obtained from various types of sensors. In this case,in order to determine the moving path and running plan, like the robot3510 a, the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may use sensorinformation obtained from at least one sensor among a LIDAR, a radar anda camera. Particularly, the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 mayrecognize an environment or object in an area whose view is blocked oran area of a given distance or more by receiving sensor information forthe environment or object from external devices, or may directly receiverecognized information for the environment or object from externaldevices.

The self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may perform the aboveoperations using a learning model configured with at least oneartificial neural network. For example, the self-driving vehicle 3510b-1, 3510 b-2 may recognize a surrounding environment and object using alearning model, and may determine the flow of running using recognizedsurrounding environment information or object information. In this case,the learning model may have been directly trained in the self-drivingvehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 or may have been trained in an externaldevice, such as the AI server 400. In this case, the self-drivingvehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may directly generate results using thelearning model and perform an operation, but may perform an operation bytransmitting sensor information to an external device, such as the AIserver 400, and receiving results generated in response thereto.

The self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may determine a moving pathand running plan using at least one of map data, object informationdetected from sensor information or object information obtained from anexternal device. The self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may runbased on the determined moving path and running plan by controlling thedriving unit. The map data may include object identification informationfor various objects disposed in the space (e.g., road) in which theself-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 runs. For example, the map datamay include object identification information for fixed objects, such asa streetlight, a rock, and a building, etc., and movable objects, suchas a vehicle and a pedestrian. Furthermore, the object identificationinformation may include a name, a type, a distance, a location, etc.

the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may perform an operation ormay run by controlling the driving unit based on a user'scontrol/interaction. In this case, the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1,3510 b-2 may obtain intention information of an interaction according toa user' behavior or voice speaking, may determine a response based onthe obtained intention information, and may perform an operation.

(Example of Third AI Apparatus—AI+XR)

An AI technology is applied to the XR device 3510 c, and the XR device3510 c may be implemented as a head-mount display, a head-up displayprovided in a vehicle, television, a mobile phone, a smartphone, acomputer, a wearable device, home appliances, a digital signage, avehicle, a fixed type robot or a movable type robot. The XR device 3510c may generate location data and attributes data for three-dimensionalpoints by analyzing three-dimensional point cloud data or image dataobtained through various sensors or from an external device, may obtaininformation on a surrounding space or real object based on the generatedlocation data and attributes data, and may output an XR object byrendering the XR object. For example, the XR device 3510 c may output anXR object, including additional information for a recognized object, bymaking the XR object correspond to the corresponding recognized object.

The XR device 3510 c may perform the above operations using a learningmodel configured with at least one artificial neural network. Forexample, the XR device 3510 c may recognize a real object inthree-dimensional point cloud data or image data using a learning model,and may provide information corresponding to the recognized real object.In this case, the learning model may have been directly trained in theXR device 3510 c or may have been trained in an external device, such asthe AI server 400. In this case, the XR device 3510 c may directlygenerate results using a learning model and perform an operation, butmay perform an operation by transmitting sensor information to anexternal device, such as the AI server 400, and receiving resultsgenerated in response thereto.

(Example of Fourth AI Apparatus—AI+Robot+Autonomous Driving)

An AI technology and a self-driving technology are applied to the robot3510 a. The robot 3510 a may be implemented as a guidance robot, atransport robot, a cleaning robot, a wearable robot, an entertainmentrobot, a pet robot, an unmanned flight robot, etc. The robot 3510 a towhich the AI technology and the self-driving technology have beenapplied may mean a robot itself having a self-driving function or maymean the robot 3510 a interacting with the self-driving vehicle 3510b-1, 3510 b-2. The robot 3510 a having the self-driving function maycollectively refer to devices that autonomously move along a given flowwithout control of a user or autonomously determine a flow and move. Therobot 3510 a and the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 having theself-driving function may use a common sensing method in order todetermine one or more of a moving path or a running plan. For example,the robot 3510 a and the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 havingthe self-driving function may determine one or more of a moving path ora running plan using information sensed through LIDAR, a radar, acamera, etc.

The robot 3510 a interacting with the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1,3510 b-2 is present separately from the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1,3510 b-2, and may perform an operation associated with a self-drivingfunction inside or outside the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2or associated with a user got in the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510b-2. In this case, the robot 3510 a interacting with the self-drivingvehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may control or assist the self-drivingfunction of the self-driving vehicle 3510b-1, 3510b-2 by obtainingsensor information in place of the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510b-2 and providing the sensor information to the self-driving vehicle3510 b-1, 3510 b-2, or by obtaining sensor information, generatingsurrounding environment information or object information, and providingthe surrounding environment information or object information to theself-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2.

The robot 3510 a interacting with the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1,3510 b-2 may control the function of the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1,3510 b-2 by monitoring a user got in the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1,3510 b-2 or through an interaction with a user. For example, if a driveris determined to be a drowsiness state, the robot 3510 a may activatethe self-driving function of the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2or assist control of the driving unit of the self-driving vehicle 3510b-1, 3510 b-2. In this case, the function of the self-driving vehicle3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 controlled by the robot 3510 a may include a functionprovided by a navigation system or audio system provided within theself-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2, in addition to a self-drivingfunction simply.

Alternatively, the robot 3510 a interacting with the self-drivingvehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may provide information to the self-drivingvehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 or may assist a function outside theself-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2. For example, the robot 3510 amay provide the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 with trafficinformation, including signal information, as in a smart traffic light,and may automatically connect an electric charger to a filling inletthrough an interaction with the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2as in the automatic electric charger of an electric vehicle.

(Example of Fifth AI Apparatus—AI+Robot+XR)

An AI technology and an XR technology are applied to the robot 3510 a,and the robot 3510 a may be implemented as a guidance robot, a transportrobot, a cleaning robot, a wearable robot, an entertainment robot, a petrobot, an unmanned flight robot, a drone, etc. The robot 3510 a to whichthe XR technology has been applied may mean a robot, that is, a targetof control/interaction within an XR image. In this case, the robot 3510a is different from the XR device 3510 c, and they may operate inconjunction with each other.

When the robot 3510 a, that is, a target of control/interaction withinan XR image, obtains sensor information from sensors including a camera,the robot 3510 a or the XR device 3510 c may generate an XR image basedon the sensor information, and the XR device 3510 c may output thegenerated XR image. Furthermore, the robot 3510 a may operate based on acontrol signal received through the XR device 3510 c or a user'sinteraction. For example, a user may identify a corresponding XR imageat timing of the robot 3510 a, remotely operating in conjunction throughan external device, such as the XR device 3510 c, may adjust theself-driving path of the robot 3510 a through an interaction, maycontrol an operation or driving, or may identify information of asurrounding object.

(Example of Sixth AI Apparatus—AI+Autonomous Driving+XR)

An AI technology and an XR technology are applied to the self-drivingvehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may be implemented as a movable type robot, avehicle, an unmanned flight body, etc. The self-driving vehicle 3510b-1, 3510 b-2 to which the XR technology has been applied may mean aself-driving vehicle equipped with means for providing an XR image or aself-driving vehicle, that is, a target of control/interaction within anXR image. Particularly, the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2,that is, a target of control/interaction within an XR image, isdifferent from the XR device 3510 c, and they may operate in conjunctionwith each other.

The self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 equipped with the means forproviding an XR image may obtain sensor information from sensorsincluding a camera, and may output an XR image generated based on theobtained sensor information. For example, the self-driving vehicle 3510b-1, 3510 b-2 includes an HUD, and may provide a passenger with an XRobject corresponding to a real object or an object within a screen byoutputting an XR image. In this case, when the XR object is output tothe HUD, at least some of the XR object may be output with itoverlapping a real object toward which a passenger's view is directed.In contrast, when the XR object is displayed on a display includedwithin the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2, at least some of theXR object may be output so that it overlaps an object within a screen.For example, the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may output XRobjects corresponding to objects, such as a carriageway, anothervehicle, a traffic light, a signpost, a two-wheeled vehicle, apedestrian, and a building.

When the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2, that is, a target ofcontrol/interaction within an XR image, obtains sensor information fromsensors including a camera, the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2or the XR device 3510 c may generate an XR image based on the sensorinformation. The XR device 3510 c may output the generated XR image.Furthermore, the self-driving vehicle 3510 b-1, 3510 b-2 may operatebased on a control signal received through an external device, such asthe XR device 3510 c, or a user's interaction.

FIG. 41 illustrates an XR device applied to the present disclosure.

FIG. 41 illustrates an XR device applied to the present invention. TheXR device may be implemented as an HMD, a head-up display (HUD) providedin a vehicle, a television, a smartphone, a computer, a wearable device,a home appliance, a digital signage, a vehicle, a robot, and the like.

Referring to FIG. 41, the XR device 100 a may includes a communicationunit 110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, an input/output unit140 a, a sensor unit 140 b, and a power supply unit 140 c. Here, blocks110 to 130/140 a to 140 c correspond to blocks 110 to 130/140 of FIG.37, respectively.

The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive signals (e.g., mediadata, control signals)with other wireless devices, portable devices, orexternal devices such as a media server. Media data may include images,images, sounds, and the like. The controller 120 may perform variousoperations by controlling components of the XR device 100 a. Forexample, the controller 120 may be configured to control and/or performprocedures such as video/image acquisition, (video/image) encoding, andmetadata generation and processing. The memory unit 130 may storedata/parameters/programs/codes/commands required for driving the XRdevice 100 a/generating an XR object. The input/output unit 140 a mayobtain control information, data, etc. from the outside, and may outputthe generated XR object. The input/output unit 140 a may include acamera, a microphone, a user input unit, a display unit, a speaker,and/or a haptic module. The sensor unit 140 b may obtain XR devicestatus, surrounding environment information, user information, and thelike. The sensor unit 140 b may include a proximity sensor, anilluminance sensor, an acceleration sensor, a magnetic sensor, a gyrosensor, an inertial sensor, an RGB sensor, an IR sensor, a fingerprintrecognition sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, an optical sensor, amicrophone, and/or a radar. The power supply unit 140 c supplies powerto the XR device 100 a, and may include a wired/wireless chargingcircuit, a battery, and the like.

For example, the memory unit 130 of the XR device 100 a may includeinformation (e.g., data)necessary for generating an XR object (e.g.,AR/VR/MR object). The input/output unit 140 a may obtain a command tomanipulate the XR device 100 a from the user, and the controller 120 maydrive the XR device 100 a according to the user's driving command. Forexample, when a user tries to watch a movie, news, etc. through the XRdevice 100 a, the controller 120 transmits the content requestinformation through the communication unit 130 to another device (e.g.,the mobile device 100 d) or to the media server. The communication unit130 may download/stream content such as movies and news from anotherdevice (e.g., the mobile device 100 d) or a media server to the memoryunit 130. The control unit 120 controls and/or performs procedures suchas video/image acquisition, (video/image) encoding, and metadatageneration/processing for content, and generates/outputs the XR objectbased on information on a surrounding space or a real object acquiredthrough the input/output unit 140 a/sensor unit 140 b.

In addition, the XR device 100 a is wirelessly connected to the mobiledevice 100 d through the communication unit 2110, and the operation ofthe XR device 100 a may be controlled by the mobile device 100 d. Forexample, the portable device 100 d may operate as a controller for theXR device 100 a. To this end, the XR device 100 a may obtain 3D locationinformation of the mobile device 100 d, and then generate and output anXR object corresponding to the mobile device 100 d.

In the embodiments described above, the components and the features ofthe present invention are combined in a predetermined form. Eachcomponent or feature should be considered as an option unless otherwiseexpressly stated. Each component or feature may be implemented not to beassociated with other components or features. Further, the embodiment ofthe present invention may be configured by associating some componentsand/or features. The order of the operations described in theembodiments of the present invention may be changed. Some components orfeatures of any embodiment may be included in another embodiment orreplaced with the component and the feature corresponding to anotherembodiment. It is apparent that the claims that are not expressly citedin the claims are combined to form an embodiment or be included in a newclaim by an amendment after the application.

The embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by hardware,firmware, software, or combinations thereof. In the case ofimplementation by hardware, according to hardware implementation, theexemplary embodiment described herein may be implemented by using one ormore application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signalprocessors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs),programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays(FPGAs), processors, controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors,and the like.

In the case of implementation by firmware or software, the embodiment ofthe present invention may be implemented in the form of a module, aprocedure, a function, and the like to perform the functions oroperations described above. A software code may be stored in the memoryand executed by the processor. The memory may be positioned inside oroutside the processor and may transmit and receive data to/from theprocessor by already various means.

It is apparent to those skilled in the art that the present inventionmay be embodied in other specific forms without departing from essentialcharacteristics of the present invention. Accordingly, theaforementioned detailed description should not be construed asrestrictive in all terms and should be exemplarily considered. The scopeof the present invention should be determined by rational construing ofthe appended claims and all modifications within an equivalent scope ofthe present invention are included in the scope of the presentinvention.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

Although a method of mapping a reference signal in a wirelesscommunication system of the present invention has been described mainlyin an example applied to a 3GPP LTE/LTE-A system and a 5G system (NewRAT system), it can be applied to various wireless communicationsystems.

1. A method for transmitting channel state information (CSI) by a userequipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, comprising: receivingconfiguration information for CSI reporting from a base station, whereinthe configuration information includes a plurality of codebookparameters related to a configuration of linear combination codebook forthe reporting; receiving, from the base station, a reference signal forthe CSI reporting; calculating, based on a compression method in afrequency domain, CSI including a precoding matrix indicator(PMI) forbeams linearly combined based on (i) the plurality of codebookparameters and (ii) the reference signal, wherein the CSI consists of afirst part and a second part; and reporting the calculated CSI to thebase station, wherein a size of a payload of the second part isdetermined based on at least one parameter among the plurality ofcodebook parameters, wherein based on a capacity of a resource allocatedto report the CSI being smaller than a size of a payload of the CSIcalculated based on the plurality of codebook parameters, the size ofthe payload of the second part is reduced until the size of the payloadof the CSI becomes less than or equal to the capacity of the resource,and wherein the size of the payload of the second part is reduced byreducing a number of co-efficients generated based on the at least oneparameter.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the PMI is included in thesecond part.
 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the PMI includes (i)information related to a beam group including the beams linearlycombined and (ii) information related to the co-efficients.
 4. Themethod of claim 3, wherein a size of the PMI is reduced by reducing thenumber of co-efficients, and wherein the size of the payload of thesecond part is reduced as the size of the PMI is reduced.
 5. The methodof claim 3, wherein the beams included in the beam group determinedbased on the information related to the beam group are linearly combinedby applying the co-efficients determined based on the informationrelated to the the co-efficients.
 6. The method of claim 15, wherein theco-efficients include (i) a phase co-efficient for a phase combinationon the beams included in the beam group and (ii) an amplitudeco-efficient for an amplitude combination on the beams included in thebeam group.
 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of theco-efficients is reduced based on a priority order among theco-efficients.
 8. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality ofcodebook parameters consist of (i) a first parameter for determining anumber of the beams included in the beam group, (ii) a second parameterfor determining a number of subbands in which the CSI is reported, and(iii) a third parameter for determining a maximum value of the number ofthe co-efficients.
 9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:determining a value of the at least one parameter that causes the sizeof the payload of the CSI to be less than or equal to the capacity ofthe resource, wherein the value of the at least one parameter is reducedbased on the determination, and wherein the number of the co-efficientsis reduced based on a reduction of the value of the at least oneparameter.
 10. The method of claim 9, further comprising: recalculatingthe CSI based on the reduced number of the co-efficients; and reportingthe recalculated CSI to the base station, wherein the recalculated CSIincludes information on the at least one parameter whose value isreduced.
 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the at least one parameterwhose value is reduced is the third parameter.
 12. The method of claim6, wherein the amplitude co-efficient includes an amplitude co-efficientfor a subband, wherein values of the amplitude co-efficient for thesubband are quantized into 8 values, and wherein the quantized values ofthe amplitude co-efficient for the subband are configured based on (i) amaximum value ‘1’ and (ii) values obtained by multiplying the maximumvalue ‘1’ by √{square root over (1/2)}.
 13. The method of claim 11,wherein the compression method in the frequency domain is a method inwhich the CSI is reported through only some subbands among all subbandsconfigured for reporting the CSI report of the UE.
 14. The method ofclaim 13, further comprising: determining a number of subbands thatcause the size of the payload of the CSI to be less than or equal to thecapacity of the resource, wherein the determined number of the subbandsis less than a number of the some subbands, and wherein the number ofco-efficients is reduced based on the CSI being reported through onlysubbands as many as the determined number of the subbands.
 15. A userequipment (UE) for transmitting channel state information (CSI) in awireless communication system, the UE comprising: a radio frequency (RF)module for transmitting and receiving radio signals; and a processor forcontrolling the RF module, wherein the processor configured to: receiveconfiguration information for CSI reporting from the base station,wherein the configuration information includes a plurality of codebookparameters related to a configuration of linear combination codebook forthe CSI reporting; receive, from the base station, a reference signalfor the CSI reporting; calculate, based on a compression method in afrequency domain, CSI including a precoding matrix indicator(PMI) forbeams linearly combined based on (i) the plurality of codebookparameters and (ii) the reference signal, wherein the CSI consists of afirst part and a second part; and report the calculated CSI to the basestation, wherein a size of a payload of the second part is determinedbased on at least one parameter among the plurality of codebookparameters, wherein based on a capacity of a resource allocated toreport the CSI being smaller than a size of a payload of the CSIcalculated based on the plurality of codebook parameters, the size ofthe payload of the second part is reduced until the size of the payloadof the CSI becomes less than or equal to the capacity of the resource,and wherein the size of the payload of the second part is reduced byreducing a number of co-efficients generated based on the at least oneparameter.
 16. A method for receiving channel state information (CSI) bya base station in a wireless communication system, comprising:transmitting configuration information for CSI reporting to a userequipment(UE), wherein the configuration information includes aplurality of codebook parameters related to a configuration of linearcombination codebook for the CSI reporting; transmitting, to the UE, areference signal for the CSI reporting; and receiving, from the UE, theCSI including a precoding matrix indicator(PMI) for beams linearlycombined, wherein the CSI consists of a first part and a second part,wherein a size of a payload of the second part is determined based on atleast one parameter among the plurality of codebook parameters, whereinbased on a capacity of a resource allocated to report the CSI beingsmaller than a size of a payload of the CSI calculated based on theplurality of codebook parameters, the size of the payload of the secondpart is reduced until the size of the payload of the CSI becomes lessthan or equal to the capacity of the resource, and wherein the size ofthe payload of the second part is reduced by reducing a number ofco-efficients generated based on the at least one parameter.
 17. A basestation for receiving channel state information (CSI) in a wirelesscommunication system, the base station comprising: a radio frequency(RF) module for transmitting and receiving radio signals; and aprocessor for controlling the RF module, wherein the processorconfigured to: transmit configuration information for CSI reporting to auser equipment(UE), wherein the configuration information includes aplurality of codebook parameters related to a configuration of linearcombination codebook for the CSI reporting; transmit, to the UE, areference signal for the CSI reporting; and receive, from the UE, theCSI including a precoding matrix indicator(PMI) for beams linearlycombined, wherein the CSI consists of a first part and a second part,wherein a size of a payload of the second part is determined based on atleast one parameter among the plurality of codebook parameters, whereinbased on a capacity of a resource allocated to report the CSI beingsmaller than a size of a payload of the CSI calculated based on theplurality of codebook parameters, the size of the payload of the secondpart is reduced until the size of the payload of the CSI becomes lessthan or equal to the capacity of the resource, and wherein the size ofthe payload of the second part is reduced by reducing a number ofco-efficients generated based on the at least one parameter.